dropbox-sdk-js popup oauth?

Where has the popup oauth method gone? Will you bring it back? How would one go about implementing this?

Sep 15 '16 02:09 bcoover

It sounds like you're referring to the Dropbox.AuthDriver.Popup functionality in the old dropbox-js library. This dropbox-sdk-js library is entirely new, and doesn't share code with that one. I'll send this along as a feature request for a pop-up authorization flow in this SDK like the old one had.

(You can see how that's implemented in the code for Dropbox.AuthDriver.Popup if you want to reproduce it though.)

Sep 15 '16 16:09 greg-db

Is there any chance we will see this implemented? I find it rather hard to integrate our single page app without this feature.

The chooser/saver dialogs would be perfect from a usability perspective: they provide a save/load dialog inside a popup coupled with an authentication - however afaik they lack the ability to save a javascript data-blob - so a plain client-side solution is not possible.

The old SDK did a good job hiding this URL manipulation/extraction procedure from the dev.

Apr 24 '17 14:04 martin-y

Thanks for the feedback @martin-y . Unfortunately, no, I'm not aware of any immediate plans to implement this.

Apr 24 '17 17:04 greg-db

@greg-db why can't we just have a getAcessToken() function that returns a promise which opens up a popup window and returns the access token once the promise resolves? I think the currently implemented way of returning the access token in the URL is one of the worst ways an API could treat developers 😒