[Identity] Revert regional auth env var change#44663
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We've decided to shelve this for now until the picture for ESTS-R support becomes more clear. This intrduces some baggage that is a bit undesirable, and it's still possible to use regional auth endpoints without this change through the use of the AZURE_AUTHORITY_HOST env var or by explicitly passing in a regional endpoint to a credential constructor via the `authority` kwarg. Signed-off-by: Paul Van Eck <paulvaneck@microsoft.com>
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This PR reverts the regional authority environment variable change introduced in PR #44347, removing support for AZURE_REGIONAL_AUTHORITY_NAME from the internal AadClient and AadClientBase classes. The change removes the region discovery logic and regional authority URL construction from these internal clients while preserving support in MSAL-based credentials through msal_credentials.py.
Changes:
- Removed regional authority initialization logic from
AadClientandAadClientBaseclasses - Removed calls to
_initialize_regional_authority()from all token acquisition methods - Removed region discovery and URL building helper methods
- Removed associated test cases for regional authority functionality in internal AAD clients
- Updated CHANGELOG to remove the fixed issue entry
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sdk/identity/azure-identity/azure/identity/_internal/aad_client_base.py |
Removed _regional_authority attribute, regional authority helper methods, and reverted token URL construction to use only _authority |
sdk/identity/azure-identity/azure/identity/_internal/aad_client.py |
Removed _initialize_regional_authority() calls and implementation, removed unused imports |
sdk/identity/azure-identity/azure/identity/aio/_internal/aad_client.py |
Removed async regional authority initialization calls and implementation, removed unused imports |
sdk/identity/azure-identity/tests/test_aad_client.py |
Removed test cases for regional authority functionality |
sdk/identity/azure-identity/tests/test_aad_client_async.py |
Removed async test cases for regional authority functionality |
sdk/identity/azure-identity/CHANGELOG.md |
Removed changelog entry about the regional authority bug fix |
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This change reverts #44347.
We've decided to shelf this for now until the picture for ESTS-R support becomes more clear. This introduced some baggage that was a bit undesirable, and it's still possible to use regional auth endpoints without this change through the use of the
AZURE_AUTHORITY_HOSTenv var or by explicitly passing in a regional endpoint to a credential constructor via theauthoritykwarg.