Authentication

AutoDesk uses OAuth-based authentication for access to their services. To get started with this package, first visit the Create an App tutorial for instructions on creating an app and getting a Client ID and Secret.

We highly recommend that the Client ID, Secret, and access tokens be stored in a file called .Renviron and accessing these keys with the Sys.getenv() function. This step is a possible solution for preventing authentication information from being in a publicly accessible location (e.g. GitHub repo). For more information on storing keys in the .Renviron file and accessing them with Sys.getenv(), see the appendix in this API Best Practices vignette.

To get an access token, use the getToken() function, which returns an object with the access_token, type, and expires_in variables.:

resp <- getToken(id = Sys.getenv("client_id"), secret = Sys.getenv("client_secret"))
myToken <- resp$content$access_token
myToken
[1] "422vSsW9XMizreWsq0OQX8tgwCpC"