Partial fix Google connected Account: "Unknown account"

[FedericoS]

Affected version

2.0.10

Hello everyone

I have seen a bug with Connected Accounts feature: When I Connected my account with Google, After few hours, It show me this



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[Lukas W.]

Pretty sure this has been brought up in the past and is working as they intended it to. It looks like that for all connected accounts on my site.

Maybe XF could save information like the remote username locally to not have it show up as "unknown" instead? That way it wouldn't look broken to the user at least, even though the information might be outdated.

 

[Mike]

FWIW, I just reassociated various accounts here, and it shows me the user details as expected. I checked FB, Twitter and Google.

So this isn't something I can reproduce.

 

[Andro]

FWIW, I just reassociated various accounts here, and it shows me the user details as expected. I checked FB, Twitter and Google.

It happens after a day or two. Not instantly.

I guess i read it somewhere on this forum, as mentioned by @Chris D or someone else.

XF doesn't remember what social account name was linked, though it works as expected.

Happens on my forum too:

 

[FedericoS]

FWIW, I just reassociated various accounts here, and it shows me the user details as expected. I checked FB, Twitter and Google.

So this isn't something I can reproduce.

It dones not happen immediatly, but After few time

 

[Lukas W.]

It does indeed take a while. Fwiw, it is able to keep some elements for certain providers, but not all of them. I've added all my connected accounts about 6 months ago, Facebook, Twitter & Google, as well as my self-written DeviantArt, Discord & Twitch providers. Of all of them, Facebook has retained the avatar and twitter avatar and profile id. The rest of the providers shows up as "Unknown account". The facebook "Unknown account" links to an invalid profile ID.

 

[Jake B.]

FWIW, I just reassociated various accounts here, and it shows me the user details as expected. I checked FB, Twitter and Google.

So this isn't something I can reproduce.

This is something I've asked about as well, it happens after the OAuth access token has expired since there is nothing within XenForo to use the refresh token to get a new access token: https://xenforo.com/community/threads/oauth-expired-access-token.142924/#post-1223208

 

[Chris D]

As mentioned above, this is mostly expected and it's not something we're looking to change right now. There are potentially other approaches we could take in the future, including making subsequent API calls to fetch the most recent account data, or caching the original values (for the name, at least) but for now we've changed the phrases in use here to "View account" if a link to the provider's profile is available or "Account associated" if no link is available.

FWIW the behaviour was exactly the same in XF1 too so it is not something which has presented itself as a significant issue over the last several years.

 

[Jaxel]

So I'm looking at my connected accounts page today... and I can see that my Twitter information is actually up to date. Even though it's been several years since I linked my account. How is XF getting this updated information and how would I implement it for my own connected account services?