hello, i have a pretty basic question but am havin...
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j
hello, i have a pretty basic question but am having trouble finding an answer in the docs. for sources that use refresh tokens, will airbyte handle refreshes? if so, where in the airbyte database (im running open source so i have full db access but there are alot of tables to search thru) are the new access/refresh tokens stored? (as i would potentially want to be able to use the tokens outside of airbyte as well.) thanks
m
Some sources get refresh token but are handled directly in the connector run and not stored in the database. If the refrsh token is required in the connector spec the data is stored encrypted in the airbyte db
j
thanks! so would attempting to retrieve/decrypt them be a discouraged usage pattern? i ask because i’m trying to use airbyte for batched reads but potentially want to do some writes with the same connection.
for example, when i refresh quickbooks online access tokens, it will often return a new refresh token which must be used for all further refreshes, would that new refresh token be stored in the airbyte db?