[SalesForce] Get SFDC sessionID via access token

As the title. I'm using username/password flow to request an access token. So how can I request a SFDC sessionID from that token?

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The access token plays the same role as the session ID. Essentially the access token is the session ID for your web service.

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Are you setting the client_id and secret ?

Those are the parameters you should send:

client_id=XXXXXX
&client_secret=XXXX
&password=passTOKEN
&username=XXX
&grant_type=password

Ensure you are setting the header Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded.

BTW, user-password flow doesn't support refresh_token flow. More info see this reply

[SalesForce] Java Code to check validity (expiration) of access token using rest api

Simply make your API calls normally. If the session has expired, you'll get an INVALID_SESSION error (4xx error code), at which point you can simply login again. Note that sessions are valid while in use, which means as long as one API call occurs before the session expires, the timer for that session will reset.

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