Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL) for Python makes it easy to authenticate to Microsoft Entra ID. General docs are available here https://learn.microsoft.com/entra/msal/python/ Stable APIs are documented here https://msal-python.readthedocs.io. Questions can be asked on www.stackoverflow.com with tag "msal" + "python".
Although MSAL provides two top-level classes: PublicClientApplication and ConfidentialClientApplication, there is another less-popular but still-doable pattern which is to use the base class ClientApplication directly. So, that allow_broker is applicable to both PublicClientApplication and the base class ClientApplication. So, that dynamic check in base class is necessary.
The ConfidentialClientApplication inherits the __init__() and its documentation from base class. Now, we choose to add a sentence in that documentation to clarify that the parameter is not applicable to ConfidentialClientApplication.
Although MSAL provides two top-level classes: PublicClientApplication and ConfidentialClientApplication, there is another less-popular but still-doable pattern which is to use the base class ClientApplication directly. So, that
allow_brokeris applicable to both PublicClientApplication and the base class ClientApplication. So, that dynamic check in base class is necessary.The ConfidentialClientApplication inherits the
__init__()and its documentation from base class. Now, we choose to add a sentence in that documentation to clarify that the parameter is not applicable to ConfidentialClientApplication.See it in action in the staged documentation.
This resolves #544.