Calling grantOfflineAccess requires user to sign in again?

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Calling grantOfflineAccess requires user to sign in again? #664

Open JoeVanGundy opened 4 years ago

JoeVanGundy commented 4 years ago

I'm connecting to the Api to get some user account information before eventually sending the authorization code to my server.
Once I have my authenticated user and retrieved their account info, I try to get an authorization code by calling grantOfflineAccess.
This requires the user to sign in again.

Can someone confirm if that's expected behaviour?

LavHinsu commented 4 years ago

Yes. ideally granting offline access allows an app//server to get access tokens infinitely. so you want user to know that they are granting offline access to their data. you cannot get the userObject and a authorization code in the same signIn session, they must signIn again.