Microsoft-graph-docs: These instructions don't make any sense

[xtianus79]

The request body must contain the following parameter: 'grant_type'

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POST https://login.microsoftonline.com/{tenant}/oauth2/v2.0/token HTTP/1.1
Host: login.microsoftonline.com
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

client_id=535fb089-9ff3-47b6-9bfb-4f1264799865
&scope=https%3A%2F%2Fgraph.microsoft.com%2F.default
&client_secret=qWgdYAmab0YSkuL1qKv5bPX
&grant_type=client_credentials

The endpoint is returning an error.

Do people look at the instructions they post and actually think to themselves if they make sense and if they really would work if someone tried to use them?

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• ID: 38b3d5e6-46bc-11d2-214f-b9c4fa29c326
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• Content: Get access without a user - Microsoft Graph
• Content Source: concepts/auth-v2-service.md
• Product: microsoft-identity-platform
• Technology: microsoft-graph
• GitHub Login: @Jackson-Woods
• Microsoft Alias: MSGraphDocsVteam

[jasonjoh]

Works fine for me. What error are you getting?

[xtianus79]

@jasonjoh can you give your example postman or curl your using exactly minus your credentials.

this is a part of the error output. it just gives that all of the time.
The request body must contain the following parameter: 'grant_type'

[jasonjoh]

Ok, that's odd. The included request in the docs has grant_type=client_credentials. That error tells me either however you're sending it left it out, or you maybe didn't send it as application/x-www-form-urlencoded?

I used Postman, there's an included token request for app-only token in our Graph Postman collection.

[xtianus79]

@jasonjoh Where did you get the clientID and ClientSecret From. Just double checking that exactly.

[jasonjoh]

I registered an application in the Azure portal. This is mentioned in step 1.

[xtianus79]

@jasonjoh that was it. Thank you sir. Also, lol, that x-www-form urlencoded is not perhaps the most commonly used param body. Was that in the docs?