Pass --force-refresh to CLI auth token command

Pass --force-refresh to the Databricks CLI auth token command when the
CLI supports it (>= v0.296.0), bypassing the CLI's internal token cache.

The SDK manages its own token caching. When the SDK considers its token
stale and shells out to `databricks auth token`, the CLI may return a
cached token that is about to expire from the SDK's perspective. The
--force-refresh flag guarantees a freshly minted token.

With the version detection infrastructure from the parent commit, adding
--force-refresh is a one-constant, one-if change.

See: databricks/cli#4767

Author: mihaimitrea-db

NEXT_CHANGELOG.md

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 ## Release v0.106.0
 
 ### New Features and Improvements
+* Pass `--force-refresh` to Databricks CLI `auth token` command so the SDK always receives a freshly minted token instead of a potentially stale one from the CLI's internal cache.
 
 ### Security
 

databricks/sdk/credentials_provider.py

@@ -1059,6 +1059,9 @@ def _validate_token_scopes(self, token: oauth.Token):
     # --profile support added in CLI v0.207.1: https://github.com/databricks/cli/pull/855
     _CLI_VERSION_FOR_PROFILE = CliVersion(0, 207, 1)
 
+    # --force-refresh support added in CLI v0.296.0: https://github.com/databricks/cli/pull/4767
+    _CLI_VERSION_FOR_FORCE_REFRESH = CliVersion(0, 296, 0)
+
     # Captures "vX.Y.Z" plus any prerelease/build-metadata suffix so dev
     # builds like "v0.0.0-dev+abcdef" can be distinguished from detection
     # failure and compared against release versions.
@@ -1123,7 +1126,25 @@ def _resolve_cli_command(cli_path: str, cfg: "Config") -> List[str]:
 
     @staticmethod
     def _build_cli_command(cli_path: str, cfg: "Config", version: CliVersion) -> List[str]:
-        """Build the `auth token` command.
+        """Build the full CLI command, including capability-gated flags.
+
+        Delegates the profile/host decision to _build_core_cli_command and
+        appends --force-refresh when supported.
+        """
+        cmd = DatabricksCliTokenSource._build_core_cli_command(cli_path, cfg, version)
+        if version >= DatabricksCliTokenSource._CLI_VERSION_FOR_FORCE_REFRESH:
+            cmd.append("--force-refresh")
+        else:
+            logger.warning(
+                f"Databricks CLI {version} does not support --force-refresh "
+                f"(requires >= {DatabricksCliTokenSource._CLI_VERSION_FOR_FORCE_REFRESH}). "
+                "The CLI's token cache may provide stale tokens."
+            )
+        return cmd
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _build_core_cli_command(cli_path: str, cfg: "Config", version: CliVersion) -> List[str]:
+        """Build the base `auth token` command without capability-gated flags.
 
         Falls back to --host when --profile is either not configured or not
         supported by the installed CLI. Raises ValueError describing which

tests/test_credentials_provider.py

@@ -451,6 +451,42 @@ def _make_cfg(*, profile=None, host=None, account_id=None):
             _CV(0, 0, 0),
             [_CLI, "auth", "token", "--host", _HOST],
         ),
+        (
+            "host with force-refresh",
+            _make_cfg(host=_HOST),
+            _CV(0, 296, 0),
+            [_CLI, "auth", "token", "--host", _HOST, "--force-refresh"],
+        ),
+        (
+            "account host with force-refresh",
+            _make_cfg(host=_ACCT_HOST, account_id="acct-123"),
+            _CV(0, 296, 0),
+            [_CLI, "auth", "token", "--host", _ACCT_HOST, "--account-id", "acct-123", "--force-refresh"],
+        ),
+        (
+            "profile with force-refresh",
+            _make_cfg(profile="my-profile", host=_HOST),
+            _CV(0, 296, 0),
+            [_CLI, "auth", "token", "--profile", "my-profile", "--force-refresh"],
+        ),
+        (
+            "profile supports profile but not force-refresh",
+            _make_cfg(profile="my-profile", host=_HOST),
+            _CV(0, 207, 1),
+            [_CLI, "auth", "token", "--profile", "my-profile"],
+        ),
+        (
+            "profile-only with force-refresh",
+            _make_cfg(profile="my-profile"),
+            _CV(0, 296, 0),
+            [_CLI, "auth", "token", "--profile", "my-profile", "--force-refresh"],
+        ),
+        (
+            "zero version, host only, no force-refresh",
+            _make_cfg(host=_HOST),
+            _CV(0, 0, 0),
+            [_CLI, "auth", "token", "--host", _HOST],
+        ),
     ],
 )
 def test_build_cli_command(name, cfg, version, expected):
@@ -531,6 +567,18 @@ def test_resolve_cli_command_wraps_missing_config_error(mocker):
         credentials_provider.DatabricksCliTokenSource._resolve_cli_command(_CLI, cfg)
 
 
+def test_build_cli_command_force_refresh_unsupported_logs_warning(caplog):
+    import logging
+
+    cfg = _make_cfg(host=_HOST)
+    with caplog.at_level(logging.WARNING, logger="databricks.sdk.credentials_provider"):
+        credentials_provider.DatabricksCliTokenSource._build_cli_command(_CLI, cfg, _CV(0, 295, 0))
+    assert any(
+        "does not support --force-refresh" in rec.message and rec.levelname == "WARNING"
+        for rec in caplog.records
+    )
+
+
 # Tests for cloud-agnostic hosts and removed cloud checks
 class TestCloudAgnosticHosts:
     """Tests that credential providers work with cloud-agnostic hosts after removing is_azure/is_gcp checks."""