We’re trying to automate the rotation of our OAuth client secrets for a backend service that pulls reporting data via the Genesys Cloud API. The goal is to do this without any downtime, so the plan is to generate a new secret, update the config store with it, and then deactivate the old one.
I’ve written a Python script using the genesyscloud SDK to handle this. The logic seems sound on paper. First, it fetches the current client details using get_oauth_client. Then it calls update_oauth_client to append the new secret to the secrets array. After that, it waits for a few seconds and calls the API again to remove the old secret from the array. Finally, it deactivates the client and reactivates it to force a refresh.
Here is the core snippet where the issue happens:
from genesyscloud.platform_client import PlatformClient
pc = PlatformClient.create_from_settings()
oauth_client = pc.oauth_client
# Step 1: Get current client
current_client = oauth_client.get_oauth_client(client_id=my_client_id)
# Step 2: Update with new secret
new_secret = generate_new_secret() # custom function
current_client.secrets.append(new_secret)
response = oauth_client.update_oauth_client(client_id=my_client_id, body=current_client)
if response.status_code != 200:
raise Exception(f"Update failed: {response.text}")
# Step 3: Remove old secret immediately to test
old_secret = current_client.secrets[0]
current_client.secrets.remove(old_secret)
# current_client.secrets.append(new_secret) # Keep new one
response = oauth_client.update_oauth_client(client_id=my_client_id, body=current_client)
The problem is right after Step 2. When I try to remove the old secret in Step 3, the API returns a 401 Unauthorized error. It seems like the SDK session itself is getting invalidated because the client was just modified, or maybe the token I’m using to make these calls isn’t valid for modifying the very client it belongs to.
I’m using a dedicated service account for this script, so it shouldn’t be a scope issue. The service account has oauth:client:write permissions. Why would the second update call fail with 401? Is there a specific header or token refresh I need to trigger manually between the two updates? Or is the approach of updating the secrets array directly flawed? We need a reliable way to swap these without dropping the active connections.