Xero SDK without using all the auth part

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Hi,

I’m looking to use the Xero SDK (npm ‘xero-node’) inside a workflow step. Pipedream is already doing all the authentication part and the SDK needs a configuration object with the token. Is there a way i can use Pipedream authentication with Xero SDK ?
Example of SDK authentication: https://github.com/XeroAPI/xero-node

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Hello @mkures,

First off, welcome to Pipedream! Happy to have you!

You can use Node code step sample “Use integrated API authentication” for this,

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It will give you an example for Github, which you can change to xero_accounting_api for your usecase

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Replying to myself:

To be able to use the Xero SDK inside pipedream, you only have to rename the tokenSet produced by pipedream.

//Import the SDK
import { XeroClient } from 'xero-node';
// create a client object
const xero = new XeroClient();
// Use the auth data from pipedream
const tokenSet = this.xero_accounting_api.$auth;
//Rename or create the object attributes for Xero
  tokenSet.id_token=tokenSet.oauth_uid;
    tokenSet.access_token=tokenSet.oauth_access_token;
    tokenSet.token_type="Bearer";
    tokenSet.refresh_token=tokenSet.oauth_refresh_token;
//choose your needed scope
    tokenSet.scope=["email", "profile", "openid", "accounting.transactions", "offline_access"]
    tokenSet.expires_in=1800;
// set the token set
    await xero.setTokenSet(tokenSet);

and then the SDK is functional.

for example try:

await xero.updateTenants();
const activeTenantId = xero.tenants[0].tenantId;
// GET all Accounts
const getAccountsResponse = await xero.accountingApi.getAccounts(activeTenantId);

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Hi @mkures

Sounds like the Python scaffolding for Xero broken out of the box, could you please file a bug report here: Sign in to GitHub · GitHub

We’d be happy to take a closer look and get that fixed so you won’t have to apply this every time.