IConfidentialClientApplication.AcquireTokenForClient Method

Reference

Definition

Namespace:: Microsoft.Identity.Client

Assembly:: Microsoft.Identity.Client.dll

Package:: Microsoft.Identity.Client v4.60.3

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Acquires a token from the authority configured in the app for the confidential client itself (not for a user) using the client credentials flow. See Client Credentials Flow. During this operation MSAL will first search in the cache for an unexpired token before acquiring a new one from Microsoft Entra ID.

public Microsoft.Identity.Client.AcquireTokenForClientParameterBuilder AcquireTokenForClient (System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable<string> scopes);

abstract member AcquireTokenForClient : seq<string> -> Microsoft.Identity.Client.AcquireTokenForClientParameterBuilder

Public Function AcquireTokenForClient (scopes As IEnumerable(Of String)) As AcquireTokenForClientParameterBuilder

Parameters

scopes: IEnumerable<String>

Scopes requested to access a protected API. For this flow (client credentials), the scopes should be in the form of "{ResourceIdUri/.default}" for instance https://management.azure.net/.default or, for Microsoft Graph, https://graph.microsoft.com/.default as the requested scopes are defined statically in the application registration in the portal, and cannot be overridden in the application.

Returns

AcquireTokenForClientParameterBuilder

A builder enabling you to add optional parameters before executing the token request.

Remarks

You can also chain the following optional parameters: WithForceRefresh(Boolean)WithExtraQueryParameters(Dictionary<String,String>)

Applies to