Error message: /me request is only valid with delegated authentication flow

Question

Hi Team,

We are trying implement Java SDK with Microsoft Team and Graph explorer.

But we are getting error and facing some difficulties.

Error message: /me request is only valid with delegated authentication flow

Even though we granted all permissions in API permissions still we getting this error.

Here we shared , Error screenshot also.

Kinldy help on this to sort out this error.

Thanks & regards

Ameer

Answer 1

The problem here is not permissions, it's how you're authenticating. When using delegate permissions, you need to leverage the user-centric auth flows. You cannot use the client credentials flow (auth via client secret/certificate).

Can you share how you're obtaining the token?

Answer 2

Hi @Ameer K

You're probably trying to call /me endpoint with the unattended client credentials flow, and that's what's causing the problem. The /me endpoint only supports user tokens, so you must use a delegated authentication flow to obtain an access token, such as the auth code flow or ROPC flow.

final AuthorizationCodeCredential authCodeCredential = new AuthorizationCodeCredentialBuilder()
        .clientId(clientId)
        .clientSecret(clientSecret) 
        .authorizationCode(authorizationCode)
        .redirectUrl(redirectUri)
        .build();

final TokenCredentialAuthProvider tokenCredentialAuthProvider = new TokenCredentialAuthProvider(scopes, authCodeCredential);

final GraphServiceClient graphClient =
  GraphServiceClient
    .builder()
    .authenticationProvider(tokenCredentialAuthProvider)
    .buildClient();

final User me = graphClient.me().buildRequest().get();

Hope this helps.

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Answer 3

How do i get the authorization code

Answer 4

How to fix it

{
    "error": {
        "code": "BadRequest",
        "message": "/me request is only valid with delegated authentication flow.",
        "innerError": {
            "date": "2023-08-31T11:02:47",
            "request-id": "8c3082ad-7541-42fd-9780-f6fd2575e97b",
            "client-request-id": "8c3082ad-7541-42fd-9780-f6fd2575e97b"
        }
    }
}

Answer 5

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