What context.DeserializeTicket(token) does?

Question

I am trying to understand how refresh token works, and I have a pretty good idea, here an example http://bit.ly/1n9Tbot, but I found this context.DeserializeTicket(protectedTicket); I am not sure what it does, and practically doesn't have any documentation as you can see here http://bit.ly/1y7LTHt

Is it use to destroy the token? if it is to "deserialize", why does not return anything?

Answer 1

context.DeserializeTicket()

is similar to

context.SetTicket()

in that they both set the context's ticket.

The difference is that DeserializeTicket takes a string, which is a serialized ticket.

This is useful for me because I save the serialized ticket (context.SerializeTicket()) in my database.