Interface IRequestAuthenticationProvider

The authentication provider interface. This is used to authenticate

• Inbound requests from Microsoft Graph. It validates the request was issued by Microsoft Graph.
  
• Outbound requests to Microsoft Graph. Tenant token is acquired to provide Microsoft Graph the permissions the bot has been consented by the tenant admin

Namespace: Microsoft.Graph.Communications.Client.Authentication

Assembly: Microsoft.Graph.Communications.Client.dll

Syntax

public interface IRequestAuthenticationProvider

Methods

AuthenticateOutboundRequestAsync(HttpRequestMessage, String)

Authenticates the specified request message. This method will be called any time there is an outbound request. This method should add any required headers for authentication (eg: Authorization).

Declaration

Task AuthenticateOutboundRequestAsync(HttpRequestMessage request, string tenant)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
HttpRequestMessage	request	The outbound http request object.
String	tenant	The tenant for which this request belongs to.

Returns

Type	Description
Task	The Task. SDK awaits on this task to make sure the bot has included the required headers.

ValidateInboundRequestAsync(HttpRequestMessage)

Validates the inbound request. This method will be called any time we have an incoming request. Returning IsValid false will result in a Forbidden response being created. SDK waits until a successful validation is returned along with tenant data in RequestValidationResult to fire any events.

Declaration

Task<RequestValidationResult> ValidateInboundRequestAsync(HttpRequestMessage request)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
HttpRequestMessage	request	The incoming request.

Returns

Type	Description
Task<RequestValidationResult>	The RequestValidationResult structure.