How to refresh tokens for Twilio Conversations API?

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I following the documentation here to create a token for the Conversation API. https://www.twilio.com/docs/conversations/quickstart?code-sample=code-fetch-your-new-conversation&code-language=Node.js&code-sdk-version=3.x#configure-the-conversations-demo-application-using-codesandboxio

twilio token:chat --identity testPineapple --chat-service-sid ISXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX --profile project-danger

This works for me, but these tokens expire after a given time. How do you refresh this token for a Conversation? I am creating these tokens from node.js.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 28 '21 at 19:33

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On the Twilio Official Doc

Once you generate a token and pass it to the client, Client can subscribe to tokenAboutToExpire events which is fired 3 minute before your token is expired

client.on('tokenAboutToExpire', function() {  
   // Same way you generated the token for the first time
   fetchToken(function(updatedToken) {
     chatClient.updateToken(updatedToken);
   });
});

answered Mar 28 '21 at 19:33

Shankar Regmi

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Also here - https://www.twilio.com/docs/conversations/best-practices-sdk-clients#the-jwt-jwe-token-lifecycle – Alan Mar 28 '21 at 23:10
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Thank you the help! How do I create a new token for this existing Conversation? – Berry Blue Mar 29 '21 at 13:51
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The token was generated from node.js, but I want to update the token from the iOS SDK. – Berry Blue Mar 29 '21 at 14:23
@Berry Blue Did you find any solution? – Arjun May 20 '21 at 13:25

How to refresh tokens for Twilio Conversations API?

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