public interface ICredential : IConfigurableHttpClientInitializer, ITokenAccess
The main interface to represent credential in the client library.
Service account, User account and Compute credential inherit from this interface
to provide access token functionality. In addition this interface inherits from
IConfigurableHttpClientInitializer to be able to hook to http requests.
More details are available in the specific implementations.
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