https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=38338

--- Comment #60 from Olivier Hubert <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to David Cook from comment #59)
> So you could have an auth type in the Koha::SMTP::Server, and then in
> Koha::SMTP::Server->transport() you could choose the appropriate transport,
> and in the transport constructor you could check if the access token is
> expired. If it is, get a new one.
> 
> With authorization_code grant, you'd have access to a refresh token, so
> you'd just use that for fetching a new access token. And if that fails, then
> you just have to fail overall anyway.
> 
> The web-based authentication is a bit of a pain, but it shouldn't be a big
> drama. 
> 
> In practice, refresh tokens should last long enough on an active server, but
> we could put together a cronjob to fetch a new access token every night. 
> 
> So the initial setup of authentication_code grant is annoying but once it's
> set up then it should work fairly similarly to the client credentials grant
> at send time.

Yes, I agree that all this is possible and the way to go. The problem I see is
that the SMTP server configuration, and so eventually the web authentication,
is / will be done through smtp_server.pl. If we allow that page to configure
the Transport and not the SMTP::Server instance, then we are forever coupling
Transport::OAUTH and SMTP::Server. In that case, I don't really see the need to
have a separate entity for Transport::OAUTH if it needs to always work in
conjunction with SMTP::Server.

I think you have summed up pretty well how will work, with a cronjob for the
refresh token, etc. I'm just curious as to why we need two separate classes if
we're linking them so deeply. I might be trying to solve a non-issue. I'm not
sure how the relationship between different classes is managed.

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