feat: Add create() overloads to GraphClientFactory that enable requests to be authenticated

Author: Ndiritu

src/Microsoft.Graph.Core/Requests/GraphClientFactory.cs

@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ namespace Microsoft.Graph
     using System.Net;
     using System.Net.Http;
     using System.Net.Http.Headers;
+    using Azure.Core;
+    using Microsoft.Graph.Authentication;
+    using Microsoft.Kiota.Abstractions.Authentication;
     using Microsoft.Kiota.Http.HttpClientLibrary;
     using Microsoft.Kiota.Http.HttpClientLibrary.Middleware;
 
@@ -106,6 +109,64 @@ public static HttpClient Create(
             return client;
         }
 
+        /// <summary>
+        ///    Creates a new <see cref="HttpClient"/> instance configured to authenticate requests using the provided <see cref="BaseBearerTokenAuthenticationProvider"/>.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="authenticationProvider">The authentication provider to initialise the Authorization handler</param>
+        /// <param name="handlers">Custom middleware pipeline to which the Authorization handler is appended. If null, default handlers are initialised</param>
+        /// <param name="version">The Graph version to use in the base URL</param>
+        /// <param name="nationalCloud">The national cloud endpoint to use</param>
+        /// <param name="proxy">The proxy to be used with the created client</param>
+        /// <param name="finalHandler">The last HttpMessageHandler to HTTP calls.</param>
+        /// <param name="disposeHandler">true if the inner handler should be disposed of by Dispose(), false if you intend to reuse the inner handler..</param>
+        /// <returns></returns>
+        public static HttpClient Create(
+            BaseBearerTokenAuthenticationProvider authenticationProvider,
+            IEnumerable<DelegatingHandler> handlers = null,
+            string version = "v1.0",
+            string nationalCloud = Global_Cloud,
+            IWebProxy proxy = null,
+            HttpMessageHandler finalHandler = null,
+            bool disposeHandler = true)
+        {
+            if (handlers == null)
+            {
+                handlers = CreateDefaultHandlers();
+            }
+            handlers = handlers.Append(new AuthorizationHandler(authenticationProvider));
+            return Create(handlers, version, nationalCloud, proxy, finalHandler, disposeHandler);
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Creates a new <see cref="HttpClient"/> instance configured to authenticate requests using the provided <see cref="TokenCredential"/>.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="tokenCredential">Token credential object use to initialise an <see cref="AzureIdentityAuthenticationProvider"></param>
+        /// <param name="handlers">Custom middleware pipeline to which the Authorization handler is appended. If null, default handlers are initialised</param>
+        /// <param name="version">The Graph version to use in the base URL</param>
+        /// <param name="nationalCloud">The national cloud endpoint to use</param>
+        /// <param name="proxy">The proxy to be used with the created client</param>
+        /// <param name="finalHandler">The last HttpMessageHandler to HTTP calls</param>
+        /// <param name="disposeHandler">true if the inner handler should be disposed of by Dispose(), false if you intend to reuse the inner handler..</param>
+        /// <returns></returns>
+        public static HttpClient Create(
+            TokenCredential tokenCredential,
+            IEnumerable<DelegatingHandler> handlers = null,
+            string version = "v1.0",
+            string nationalCloud = Global_Cloud,
+            IWebProxy proxy = null,
+            HttpMessageHandler finalHandler = null,
+            bool disposeHandler = true)
+        {
+            if (handlers == null)
+            {
+                handlers = CreateDefaultHandlers();
+            }
+            handlers = handlers.Append(new AuthorizationHandler(
+                new AzureIdentityAuthenticationProvider(tokenCredential, null, null, true)
+            ));
+            return Create(handlers, version, nationalCloud, proxy, finalHandler, disposeHandler);
+        }
+
         /// <summary>
         /// Create a default set of middleware for calling Microsoft Graph
         /// </summary>