[Vtigercrm-developers] Ideas and suggestions please?

[Alan Lord (News)]

One of the most annoying bugs in the Thunderbird extension for me and my 
customers is how, if the session times out, you have to re-save the 
vtiger configuration settings to trigger a fresh login attempt.

I'd really like to fix this so that, as with all my email accounts, I do 
not have to repeatedly login.

I've been thinking about how to achieve this and am not sure of the 
"right" approach.

When we login using the REST API, we get a token. This token has a 
lifetime, which I believe we can capture and store. When any new 
transaction occurs (within the lifetime of the current token) across the 
REST API, I believe the lifetime of the token is then extended.

The TB extension is written in javascript and I am not sure that we can 
spawn a thread to run a timer so that we can trigger an event before the 
token expires if nothing else has happened.

Could I just check to see if the token has expired (time elapsed) and if 
so, go through the login process again? This means I have to add a test 
before *every* API call (seems like a lot of overhead to me?).

I'm not really a professional programmer and am unsure of the best way 
to deal with this.

Ideas and suggestions most welcome.

Cheers

Al

PS: What is the session lifetime BTW?

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