Authentication
AutoDesk uses OAuth-based authentication for access to their services. To get started with this package, first visit the Create an App tutorial at https://aps.autodesk.com/en/docs/oauth/v2/tutorials/create-app/ 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.: