The scope specified in the msal's acquire_token_for_client method is not in list format.

[iamkdada]

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- [ ] feature request
- [ ] documentation issue or request
- [ ] regression (a behavior that used to work and stopped in a new release)

Minimal steps to reproduce

Execute the instructions in the README.md file up to the "Running the sample" section.

Any log messages given by the failure

Traceback (most recent call last): File "app.py", line 96, in result = msalCca.acquire_token_for_client( scopes="3db474b9-6a0c-4840-96ac-1fceb342124f/.default" ) File "/mnt/c/Users/keisukewada/source/kdada-vc/active-directory-verifiable-credentials-python/1-python-api-idtokenhint/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/msal/application.py", line 2146, in acquire_token_for_client return _clean_up(self._acquire_token_silent_with_error( File "/mnt/c/Users/keisukewada/source/kdada-vc/active-directory-verifiable-credentials-python/1-python-api-idtokenhint/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/msal/application.py", line 1282, in _acquire_token_silent_with_error assert isinstance(scopes, list), "Invalid parameter type" AssertionError: Invalid parameter type

Expected/desired behavior

It's unclear if past versions of MSAL allowed passing scopes as a string, but at least in my environment (msal: 1.26.0), scopes must now be passed in list format, otherwise an AssertionError occurs. Therefore, I believe it's necessary to pass "3db474b9-6a0c-4840-96ac-1fceb342124f/.default" as a list.

-result = msalCca.acquire_token_for_client( scopes="3db474b9-6a0c-4840-96ac-1fceb342124f/.default" ) 
+result = msalCca.acquire_token_for_client( scopes=["3db474b9-6a0c-4840-96ac-1fceb342124f/.default"] )  

OS and Version?

Windows 11 WSL Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS

Versions

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As an additional note, the specification of scopes="3db474b9-6a0c-4840-96ac-1fceb342124f/.default" can be found in four files: README.md, app.py, issuer.py, and verifier.py.

[cljung]

@iamkdada - you're absolutely correct and thank you for reporting. Bug fixed. Sorry it took a while