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You can find high level conceptual documentations in the project README.

There are many different application scenarios. MSAL Python supports some of them. The
following diagram serves as a map. Locate your application scenario on the map. If the
corresponding icon is clickable, it will bring you to an MSAL Python sample for that
scenario.

• Most authentication scenarios acquire tokens on behalf of signed-in users.

• There are also daemon apps. In these scenarios, applications acquire tokens on behalf of
themselves with no user.

• There are other less common samples, such for ADAL-to-MSAL migration, available inside
the project code base.

The following section is the API Reference of MSAL Python. The API Reference is like a
dictionary. You read this API section when and only when:

• You already followed our sample(s) above and have your app up and running, but want to
know more on how you could tweak the authentication experience by using other optional
parameters (there are plenty of them!)

• You read the MSAL Python source code and found a helper function that is useful to you,
then you would want to double check whether that helper is documented below. Only
documented APIs are considered part of the MSAL Python public API, which are guaranteed
to be backward-compatible in MSAL Python 1.x series. Undocumented internal helpers are
subject to change anytime, without prior notice.

NOTE:
Only APIs and their parameters documented in this section are part of public API, with
guaranteed backward compatibility for the entire 1.x series.

Other modules in the source code are all considered as internal helpers, which could
change at anytime in the future, without prior notice.

MSAL proposes a clean separation between public client applications and confidential
client applications.

They are implemented as two separated classes, with different methods for different
authentication scenarios.

class msal.ClientApplication(client_id, client_credential=None, authority=None,
validate_authority=True, token_cache=None, http_client=None, verify=True, proxies=None,
timeout=None, client_claims=None, app_name=None, app_version=None,
client_capabilities=None, azure_region=None, exclude_scopes=None, http_cache=None,
instance_discovery=None, allow_broker=None)
You do not usually directly use this class. Use its subclasses instead:
PublicClientApplication and ConfidentialClientApplication.

__init__(client_id, client_credential=None, authority=None,
validate_authority=True, token_cache=None, http_client=None, verify=True,
proxies=None, timeout=None, client_claims=None, app_name=None, app_version=None,
client_capabilities=None, azure_region=None, exclude_scopes=None, http_cache=None,
instance_discovery=None, allow_broker=None)
Create an instance of application.

Parameters

• client_id (str) -- Your app has a client_id after you register it
on AAD.

• client_credential (Union[str,
_sphinx_paramlinks_msal.ClientApplication.dict]) --

For PublicClientApplication, you simply use None here. For
ConfidentialClientApplication, it can be a string containing client
secret, or an X509 certificate container in this form:

{
"private_key": "...-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----...",
"thumbprint": "A1B2C3D4E5F6...",
"public_certificate": "...-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----... (Optional. See below.)",
"passphrase": "Passphrase if the private_key is encrypted (Optional. Added in version 1.6.0)",
}

Added in version 0.5.0: public_certificate (optional) is public key
certificate which will be sent through 'x5c' JWT header only for
subject name and issuer authentication to support cert auto rolls.

Per specs, "the certificate containing the public key corresponding
to the key used to digitally sign the JWS MUST be the first
certificate. This MAY be followed by additional certificates, with
each subsequent certificate being the one used to certify the
previous one." However, your certificate's issuer may use a
different order. So, if your attempt ends up with an error
AADSTS700027 - "The provided signature value did not match the
expected signature value", you may try use only the leaf cert (in
PEM/str format) instead.

Added in version 1.13.0: It can also be a completely pre-signed
assertion that you've assembled yourself. Simply pass a container
containing only the key "client_assertion", like this:

{
"client_assertion": "...a JWT with claims aud, exp, iss, jti, nbf, and sub..."
}

• client_claims (dict) --

Added in version 0.5.0: It is a dictionary of extra claims that
would be signed by by this ConfidentialClientApplication 's private
key. For example, you can use {"client_ip": "x.x.x.x"}. You may
also override any of the following default claims:

{
"aud": the_token_endpoint,
"iss": self.client_id,
"sub": same_as_issuer,
"exp": now + 10_min,
"iat": now,
"jti": a_random_uuid
}

• authority (str) --

A URL that identifies a token authority. It should be of the format
https://login.microsoftonline.com/your_tenant By default, we will
use https://login.microsoftonline.com/common

Changed in version 1.17: you can also use predefined constant and a
builder like this:

from msal.authority import (
AuthorityBuilder,
AZURE_US_GOVERNMENT, AZURE_CHINA, AZURE_PUBLIC)
my_authority = AuthorityBuilder(AZURE_PUBLIC, "contoso.onmicrosoft.com")
# Now you get an equivalent of
# "https://login.microsoftonline.com/contoso.onmicrosoft.com"

# You can feed such an authority to msal's ClientApplication
from msal import PublicClientApplication
app = PublicClientApplication("my_client_id", authority=my_authority, ...)

• validate_authority (bool) -- (optional) Turns authority validation
on or off. This parameter default to true.

• cache (TokenCache) -- Sets the token cache used by this
ClientApplication instance. By default, an in-memory cache will be
created and used.

• http_client -- (optional) Your implementation of abstract class
HttpClient <msal.oauth2cli.http.http_client> Defaults to a requests
session instance. Since MSAL 1.11.0, the default session would be
configured to attempt one retry on connection error. If you are
providing your own http_client, it will be your http_client's duty
to decide whether to perform retry.

• verify -- (optional) It will be passed to the verify parameter in
the underlying requests library This does not apply if you have
chosen to pass your own Http client

• proxies -- (optional) It will be passed to the proxies parameter in
the underlying requests library This does not apply if you have
chosen to pass your own Http client

• timeout -- (optional) It will be passed to the timeout parameter in
the underlying requests library This does not apply if you have
chosen to pass your own Http client

• app_name -- (optional) You can provide your application name for
Microsoft telemetry purposes. Default value is None, means it will
not be passed to Microsoft.

• app_version -- (optional) You can provide your application version
for Microsoft telemetry purposes. Default value is None, means it
will not be passed to Microsoft.

• client_capabilities (list[str]) --

(optional) Allows configuration of one or more client capabilities,
e.g. ["CP1"].

Client capability is meant to inform the Microsoft identity
platform (STS) what this client is capable for, so STS can decide
to turn on certain features. For example, if client is capable to
handle claims challenge, STS can then issue CAE access tokens to
resources knowing when the resource emits claims challenge the
client will be capable to handle.

Implementation details: Client capability is implemented using
"claims" parameter on the wire, for now. MSAL will combine them
into claims parameter which you will later provide via one of the
acquire-token request.

• azure_region (str) --

AAD provides regional endpoints for apps to opt in to keep their
traffic remain inside that region.

As of 2021 May, regional service is only available for
acquire_token_for_client() sent by any of the following scenarios:

1. An app powered by a capable MSAL (MSAL Python 1.12+ will be
provisioned)

2. An app with managed identity, which is formerly known as MSI.
(However MSAL Python does not support managed identity, so this
one does not apply.)

3. An app authenticated by Subject Name/Issuer (SNI).

4. An app which already onboard to the region's allow-list.

This parameter defaults to None, which means region behavior
remains off.

App developer can opt in to a regional endpoint, by provide its
region name, such as "westus", "eastus2". You can find a full list
of regions by running az account list-locations -o table, or
referencing to this doc.

An app running inside Azure Functions and Azure VM can use a
special keyword ClientApplication.ATTEMPT_REGION_DISCOVERY to
auto-detect region.

NOTE:
Setting azure_region to non-None for an app running outside of
Azure Function/VM could hang indefinitely.

You should consider opting in/out region behavior on-demand, by
loading azure_region=None or azure_region="westus" or
azure_region=True (which means opt-in and auto-detect) from your
per-deployment configuration, and then do app =
ConfidentialClientApplication(..., azure_region=azure_region).

Alternatively, you can configure a short timeout, or provide a
custom http_client which has a short timeout. That way, the
latency would be under your control, but still less performant
than opting out of region feature.

New in version 1.12.0.

• exclude_scopes (list[str]) -- (optional) Historically MSAL
hardcodes offline_access scope, which would allow your app to have
prolonged access to user's data. If that is unnecessary or
undesirable for your app, now you can use this parameter to supply
an exclusion list of scopes, such as exclude_scopes =
["offline_access"].

• http_cache (dict) --

MSAL has long been caching tokens in the token_cache. Recently,
MSAL also introduced a concept of http_cache, by automatically
caching some finite amount of non-token http responses, so that
long-lived PublicClientApplication and
ConfidentialClientApplication would be more performant and
responsive in some situations.

This http_cache parameter accepts any dict-like object. If not
provided, MSAL will use an in-memory dict.

If your app is a command-line app (CLI), you would want to persist
your http_cache across different CLI runs. The following recipe
shows a way to do so:

# Just add the following lines at the beginning of your CLI script
import sys, atexit, pickle
http_cache_filename = sys.argv[0] + ".http_cache"
try:
with open(http_cache_filename, "rb") as f:
persisted_http_cache = pickle.load(f) # Take a snapshot
except (
FileNotFoundError, # Or IOError in Python 2
pickle.UnpicklingError, # A corrupted http cache file
):
persisted_http_cache = {} # Recover by starting afresh
atexit.register(lambda: pickle.dump(
# When exit, flush it back to the file.
# It may occasionally overwrite another process's concurrent write,
# but that is fine. Subsequent runs will reach eventual consistency.
persisted_http_cache, open(http_cache_file, "wb")))

# And then you can implement your app as you normally would
app = msal.PublicClientApplication(
"your_client_id",
...,
http_cache=persisted_http_cache, # Utilize persisted_http_cache
...,
#token_cache=..., # You may combine the old token_cache trick
# Please refer to token_cache recipe at
# https://msal-python.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#msal.SerializableTokenCache
)
app.acquire_token_interactive(["your", "scope"], ...)

Content inside http_cache are cheap to obtain. There is no need to
share them among different apps.

Content inside http_cache will contain no tokens nor Personally
Identifiable Information (PII). Encryption is unnecessary.

New in version 1.16.0.

• instance_discovery (boolean) --

Historically, MSAL would connect to a central endpoint located at
https://login.microsoftonline.com to acquire some metadata,
especially when using an unfamiliar authority. This behavior is
known as Instance Discovery.

This parameter defaults to None, which enables the Instance
Discovery.

If you know some authorities which you allow MSAL to operate with
as-is, without involving any Instance Discovery, the recommended
pattern is:

known_authorities = frozenset([ # Treat your known authorities as const
"https://contoso.com/adfs", "https://login.azs/foo"])
...
authority = "https://contoso.com/adfs" # Assuming your app will use this
app1 = PublicClientApplication(
"client_id",
authority=authority,
# Conditionally disable Instance Discovery for known authorities
instance_discovery=authority not in known_authorities,
)

If you do not know some authorities beforehand, yet still want MSAL
to accept any authority that you will provide, you can use a False
to unconditionally disable Instance Discovery.

New in version 1.19.0.

• allow_broker (boolean) --

This parameter is NOT applicable to ConfidentialClientApplication.

A broker is a component installed on your device. Broker
implicitly gives your device an identity. By using a broker, your
device becomes a factor that can satisfy MFA (Multi-factor
authentication). This factor would become mandatory if a tenant's
admin enables a corresponding Conditional Access (CA) policy. The
broker's presence allows Microsoft identity platform to have higher
confidence that the tokens are being issued to your device, and
that is more secure.

An additional benefit of broker is, it runs as a long-lived process
with your device's OS, and maintains its own cache, so that your
broker-enabled apps (even a CLI) could automatically SSO from a
previously established signed-in session.

This parameter defaults to None, which means MSAL will not utilize
a broker. If this parameter is set to True, MSAL will use the
broker whenever possible, and automatically fall back to non-broker
behavior. That also means your app does not need to enable broker
conditionally, you can always set allow_broker to True, as long as
your app meets the following prerequisite:

• Installed optional dependency, e.g. pip install
msal[broker]>=1.20,<2. (Note that broker is currently only
available on Windows 10+)

• Register a new redirect_uri for your desktop app as:
ms-appx-web://Microsoft.AAD.BrokerPlugin/your_client_id

• Tested your app in following scenarios:

• Windows 10+

• PublicClientApplication's following methods::
acquire_token_interactive(),
acquire_token_by_username_password(), acquire_token_silent()
(or acquire_token_silent_with_error()).

• AAD and MSA accounts (i.e. Non-ADFS, non-B2C)

New in version 1.20.0.

acquire_token_by_auth_code_flow(auth_code_flow, auth_response, scopes=None,
**kwargs)
Validate the auth response being redirected back, and obtain tokens.

It automatically provides nonce protection.

Parameters

• auth_code_flow (dict) -- The same dict returned by
initiate_auth_code_flow().

• auth_response (dict) -- A dict of the query string received from
auth server.

• scopes (list[str]) --

Scopes requested to access a protected API (a resource).

Most of the time, you can leave it empty.

If you requested user consent for multiple resources, here you will
need to provide a subset of what you required in
initiate_auth_code_flow().

OAuth2 was designed mostly for singleton services, where tokens are
always meant for the same resource and the only changes are in the
scopes. In AAD, tokens can be issued for multiple 3rd party
resources. You can ask authorization code for multiple resources,
but when you redeem it, the token is for only one intended
recipient, called audience. So the developer need to specify a
scope so that we can restrict the token to be issued for the
corresponding audience.

Returns

• A dict containing "access_token" and/or "id_token", among others,
depends on what scope was used. (See
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6749#section-5.1)

• A dict containing "error", optionally "error_description",
"error_uri". (It is either this or that)

• Most client-side data error would result in ValueError exception.
So the usage pattern could be without any protocol details:

def authorize(): # A controller in a web app
try:
result = msal_app.acquire_token_by_auth_code_flow(
session.get("flow", {}), request.args)
if "error" in result:
return render_template("error.html", result)
use(result) # Token(s) are available in result and cache
except ValueError: # Usually caused by CSRF
pass # Simply ignore them
return redirect(url_for("index"))

acquire_token_by_authorization_code(code, scopes, redirect_uri=None, nonce=None,
claims_challenge=None, **kwargs)
The second half of the Authorization Code Grant.

Parameters

• code -- The authorization code returned from Authorization Server.

• scopes (list[str]) --

(Required) Scopes requested to access a protected API (a resource).

If you requested user consent for multiple resources, here you will
typically want to provide a subset of what you required in
AuthCode.

• nonce -- If you provided a nonce when calling
get_authorization_request_url(), same nonce should also be provided
here, so that we'll validate it. An exception will be raised if
the nonce in id token mismatches.

• claims_challenge -- The claims_challenge parameter requests
specific claims requested by the resource provider in the form of a
claims_challenge directive in the www-authenticate header to be
returned from the UserInfo Endpoint and/or in the ID Token and/or
Access Token. It is a string of a JSON object which contains lists
of claims being requested from these locations.

Returns
A dict representing the json response from AAD:

• A successful response would contain "access_token" key,

• an error response would contain "error" and usually
"error_description".

acquire_token_by_refresh_token(refresh_token, scopes, **kwargs)
Acquire token(s) based on a refresh token (RT) obtained from elsewhere.

You use this method only when you have old RTs from elsewhere, and now you
want to migrate them into MSAL. Calling this method results in new tokens
automatically storing into MSAL.

You do NOT need to use this method if you are already using MSAL. MSAL
maintains RT automatically inside its token cache, and an access token can
be retrieved when you call acquire_token_silent().

Parameters

• refresh_token (str) -- The old refresh token, as a string.

• scopes (list) -- The scopes associate with this old RT. Each scope
needs to be in the Microsoft identity platform (v2) format. See
Scopes not resources.

Returns

• A dict contains "error" and some other keys, when error happened.

• A dict contains no "error" key means migration was successful.

acquire_token_by_username_password(username, password, scopes,
claims_challenge=None, **kwargs)
Gets a token for a given resource via user credentials.

See this page for constraints of Username Password Flow.
https://github.com/AzureAD/microsoft-authentication-library-for-python/wiki/Username-Password-Authentication

Parameters

• username (str) -- Typically a UPN in the form of an email address.

• password (str) -- The password.

• scopes (list[str]) -- Scopes requested to access a protected API (a
resource).

Returns
A dict representing the json response from AAD:

• A successful response would contain "access_token" key,

• an error response would contain "error" and usually
"error_description".

acquire_token_silent(scopes, account, authority=None, force_refresh=False,
claims_challenge=None, **kwargs)
Acquire an access token for given account, without user interaction.

It has same parameters as the acquire_token_silent_with_error(). The
difference is the behavior of the return value. This method will combine
the cache empty and refresh error into one return value, None. If your app
does not care about the exact token refresh error during token cache
look-up, then this method is easier and recommended.

Returns

• A dict containing no "error" key, and typically contains an
"access_token" key, if cache lookup succeeded.

• None when cache lookup does not yield a token.

acquire_token_silent_with_error(scopes, account, authority=None,
force_refresh=False, claims_challenge=None, **kwargs)
Acquire an access token for given account, without user interaction.

It is done either by finding a valid access token from cache, or by finding
a valid refresh token from cache and then automatically use it to redeem a
new access token.

This method will differentiate cache empty from token refresh error. If
your app cares the exact token refresh error during token cache look-up,
then this method is suitable. Otherwise, the other method
acquire_token_silent() is recommended.

Parameters

• scopes (list[str]) -- (Required) Scopes requested to access a
protected API (a resource).

• account -- (Required) One of the account object returned by
get_accounts(). Starting from MSAL Python 1.23, a None input will
become a NO-OP and always return None.

• force_refresh -- If True, it will skip Access Token look-up, and
try to find a Refresh Token to obtain a new Access Token.

Returns

• A dict containing no "error" key, and typically contains an
"access_token" key, if cache lookup succeeded.

• None when there is simply no token in the cache.

• A dict containing an "error" key, when token refresh failed.

get_accounts(username=None)
Get a list of accounts which previously signed in, i.e. exists in cache.

An account can later be used in acquire_token_silent() to find its tokens.

Parameters
username -- Filter accounts with this username only. Case
insensitive.

Returns
A list of account objects. Each account is a dict. For now, we only
document its "username" field. Your app can choose to display those
information to end user, and allow user to choose one of his/her
accounts to proceed.

get_authorization_request_url(scopes, login_hint=None, state=None,
redirect_uri=None, response_type='code', prompt=None, nonce=None, domain_hint=None,
claims_challenge=None, **kwargs)
Constructs a URL for you to start a Authorization Code Grant.

Parameters

• scopes (list[str]) -- (Required) Scopes requested to access a
protected API (a resource).

• state (str) -- Recommended by OAuth2 for CSRF protection.

• login_hint (str) -- Identifier of the user. Generally a User
Principal Name (UPN).

• redirect_uri (str) -- Address to return to upon receiving a
response from the authority.

• response_type (str) --

Default value is "code" for an OAuth2 Authorization Code grant.

You could use other content such as "id_token" or "token", which
would trigger an Implicit Grant, but that is not recommended.

• prompt (str) -- By default, no prompt value will be sent, not even
"none". You will have to specify a value explicitly. Its valid
values are defined in Open ID Connect specs
https://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-core-1_0.html#AuthRequest

• nonce -- A cryptographically random value used to mitigate replay
attacks. See also OIDC specs.

• domain_hint -- Can be one of "consumers" or "organizations" or your
tenant domain "contoso.com". If included, it will skip the
email-based discovery process that user goes through on the sign-in
page, leading to a slightly more streamlined user experience. More
information on possible values available in Auth Code Flow doc and
domain_hint doc.

Returns
The authorization url as a string.

initiate_auth_code_flow(scopes, redirect_uri=None, state=None, prompt=None,
login_hint=None, domain_hint=None, claims_challenge=None, max_age=None,
response_mode=None)
Initiate an auth code flow.

Later when the response reaches your redirect_uri, you can use
acquire_token_by_auth_code_flow() to complete the
authentication/authorization.

Parameters

• scopes (list) -- It is a list of case-sensitive strings.

• redirect_uri (str) -- Optional. If not specified, server will use
the pre-registered one.

• state (str) -- An opaque value used by the client to maintain state
between the request and callback. If absent, this library will
automatically generate one internally.

• login_hint (str) -- Optional. Identifier of the user. Generally a
User Principal Name (UPN).

• domain_hint --

Can be one of "consumers" or "organizations" or your tenant domain
"contoso.com". If included, it will skip the email-based discovery
process that user goes through on the sign-in page, leading to a
slightly more streamlined user experience. More information on
possible values available in Auth Code Flow doc and domain_hint
doc.

• max_age (int) --

OPTIONAL. Maximum Authentication Age. Specifies the allowable
elapsed time in seconds since the last time the End-User was
actively authenticated. If the elapsed time is greater than this
value, Microsoft identity platform will actively re-authenticate
the End-User.

MSAL Python will also automatically validate the auth_time in ID
token.

New in version 1.15.

• response_mode (str) -- OPTIONAL. Specifies the method with which
response parameters should be returned. The default value is
equivalent to query, which is still secure enough in MSAL Python
(because MSAL Python does not transfer tokens via query parameter
in the first place). For even better security, we recommend using
the value form_post. In "form_post" mode, response parameters will
be encoded as HTML form values that are transmitted via the HTTP
POST method and encoded in the body using the
application/x-www-form-urlencoded format. Valid values can be
either "form_post" for HTTP POST to callback URI or "query" (the
default) for HTTP GET with parameters encoded in query string.
More information on possible values here
<https://openid.net/specs/oauth-v2-multiple-response-types-1_0.html#ResponseModes>
and here
<https://openid.net/specs/oauth-v2-form-post-response-mode-1_0.html#FormPostResponseMode>

Returns
The auth code flow. It is a dict in this form:

{
"auth_uri": "https://...", // Guide user to visit this
"state": "...", // You may choose to verify it by yourself,
// or just let acquire_token_by_auth_code_flow()
// do that for you.
"...": "...", // Everything else are reserved and internal
}

The caller is expected to:

1. somehow store this content, typically inside the current session,

2. guide the end user (i.e. resource owner) to visit that auth_uri,

3. and then relay this dict and subsequent auth response to
acquire_token_by_auth_code_flow().

remove_account(account)
Sign me out and forget me from token cache

class msal.PublicClientApplication(client_id, client_credential=None, **kwargs)

__init__(client_id, client_credential=None, **kwargs)
Same as ClientApplication.__init__(), except that client_credential
parameter shall remain None.

acquire_token_by_device_flow(flow, claims_challenge=None, **kwargs)
Obtain token by a device flow object, with customizable polling effect.

Parameters

• flow (dict) -- A dict previously generated by
initiate_device_flow(). By default, this method's polling effect
will block current thread. You can abort the polling loop at any
time, by changing the value of the flow's "expires_at" key to 0.

Returns
A dict representing the json response from AAD:

• A successful response would contain "access_token" key,

• an error response would contain "error" and usually
"error_description".

acquire_token_interactive(scopes, prompt=None, login_hint=None, domain_hint=None,
claims_challenge=None, timeout=None, port=None, extra_scopes_to_consent=None,
max_age=None, parent_window_handle=None, on_before_launching_ui=None, **kwargs)
Acquire token interactively i.e. via a local browser.

Prerequisite: In Azure Portal, configure the Redirect URI of your "Mobile
and Desktop application" as http://localhost. If you opts in to use broker
during PublicClientApplication creation, your app also need this Redirect
URI: ms-appx-web://Microsoft.AAD.BrokerPlugin/YOUR_CLIENT_ID

Parameters

• scopes (list) -- It is a list of case-sensitive strings.

• login_hint (str) -- Optional. Identifier of the user. Generally a
User Principal Name (UPN).

• domain_hint --

• timeout (int) -- This method will block the current thread. This
parameter specifies the timeout value in seconds. Default value
None means wait indefinitely.

• port (int) -- The port to be used to listen to an incoming auth
response. By default we will use a system-allocated port. (The
rest of the redirect_uri is hard coded as http://localhost.)

• extra_scopes_to_consent (list) -- "Extra scopes to consent" is a
concept only available in AAD. It refers to other resources you
might want to prompt to consent for, in the same interaction, but
for which you won't get back a token for in this particular
operation.

• max_age (int) --

MSAL Python will also automatically validate the auth_time in ID
token.

New in version 1.15.

• parent_window_handle (int) --

OPTIONAL. If your app is a GUI app running on modern Windows
system, and your app opts in to use broker, you are recommended to
also provide its window handle, so that the sign in UI window will
properly pop up on top of your window.

New in version 1.20.0.

• on_before_launching_ui (function) --

A callback with the form of lambda ui="xyz", **kwargs: print("A {}
will be launched".format(ui)), where ui will be either "browser" or
"broker". You can use it to inform your end user to expect a
pop-up window.

New in version 1.20.0.

Returns

• A dict containing no "error" key, and typically contains an
"access_token" key.

• A dict containing an "error" key, when token refresh failed.

initiate_device_flow(scopes=None, **kwargs)
Initiate a Device Flow instance, which will be used in
acquire_token_by_device_flow().

Parameters
scopes (list[str]) -- Scopes requested to access a protected API (a
resource).

Returns
A dict representing a newly created Device Flow object.

• A successful response would contain "user_code" key, among others

• an error response would contain some other readable key/value
pairs.

class msal.ConfidentialClientApplication(client_id, client_credential=None,
authority=None, validate_authority=True, token_cache=None, http_client=None, verify=True,
proxies=None, timeout=None, client_claims=None, app_name=None, app_version=None,
client_capabilities=None, azure_region=None, exclude_scopes=None, http_cache=None,
instance_discovery=None, allow_broker=None)
Same as ClientApplication.__init__(), except that allow_broker parameter shall
remain None.

acquire_token_for_client(scopes, claims_challenge=None, **kwargs)
Acquires token for the current confidential client, not for an end user.

Since MSAL Python 1.23, it will automatically look for token from cache, and
only send request to Identity Provider when cache misses.

Parameters

• scopes (list[str]) -- (Required) Scopes requested to access a
protected API (a resource).

Returns
A dict representing the json response from AAD:

• A successful response would contain "access_token" key,

• an error response would contain "error" and usually
"error_description".

acquire_token_on_behalf_of(user_assertion, scopes, claims_challenge=None, **kwargs)
Acquires token using on-behalf-of (OBO) flow.

The current app is a middle-tier service which was called with a token
representing an end user. The current app can use such token (a.k.a. a user
assertion) to request another token to access downstream web API, on behalf
of that user. See detail docs here .

The current middle-tier app has no user interaction to obtain consent. See
how to gain consent upfront for your middle-tier app from this article.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/develop/v2-oauth2-on-behalf-of-flow#gaining-consent-for-the-middle-tier-application

Parameters

• user_assertion (str) -- The incoming token already received by this
app

• scopes (list[str]) -- Scopes required by downstream API (a
resource).

Returns
A dict representing the json response from AAD:

• A successful response would contain "access_token" key,

• an error response would contain "error" and usually
"error_description".

One of the parameters accepted by both PublicClientApplication and
ConfidentialClientApplication is the TokenCache.

class msal.TokenCache
This is considered as a base class containing minimal cache behavior.

Although it maintains tokens using unified schema across all MSAL libraries, this
class does not serialize/persist them. See subclass SerializableTokenCache for
details on serialization.

add(event, now=None)
Handle a token obtaining event, and add tokens into cache.

You can subclass it to add new behavior, such as, token serialization. See
SerializableTokenCache for example.

class msal.SerializableTokenCache
This serialization can be a starting point to implement your own persistence.

This class does NOT actually persist the cache on disk/db/etc.. Depending on your
need, the following simple recipe for file-based persistence may be sufficient:

import os, atexit, msal
cache = msal.SerializableTokenCache()
if os.path.exists("my_cache.bin"):
cache.deserialize(open("my_cache.bin", "r").read())
atexit.register(lambda:
open("my_cache.bin", "w").write(cache.serialize())
# Hint: The following optional line persists only when state changed
if cache.has_state_changed else None
)
app = msal.ClientApplication(..., token_cache=cache)
...

Variables
has_state_changed (bool) -- Indicates whether the cache state in the memory
has changed since last serialize() or deserialize() call.

add(event, **kwargs)
Handle a token obtaining event, and add tokens into cache.

deserialize(state: Optional[str]) -> None
Deserialize the cache from a state previously obtained by serialize()

serialize() -> str
Serialize the current cache state into a string.

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