How to add custom IChatClient middlewares using services.AddAzureOpenAIChatClient?

[panicoenlaxbox]

Hi,

I'm using services.AddAzureOpenAIChatClient , and I would like to implement a custom IChatClient middleware as described here:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/ai/microsoft-extensions-ai#custom-ichatclient-middleware

However, I’m not sure how to do this, because the method

semantic-kernel/dotnet/src/Connectors/Connectors.AzureOpenAI/Extensions/AzureOpenAIServiceCollectionExtensions.DependencyInjection.cs

Line 38 in 1e77014

public static IServiceCollection AddAzureOpenAIChatClient(

creates the IChatClient internally without exposing any extensibility point, and there’s no way to inject additional .Use<CustomMiddleware>() steps into the pipeline.

Am I missing something, or is it right?

Thank you!