Symfony 5.4 HttpClient setting curl options for PayPal Checkout integration

I am implementing PayPal Checkout (https://developer.paypal.com/docs/checkout/standard/integrate/) in a Symfony 5.4 project.

I am kind of stuck retrieving an access token by sending clientId and clientSecret to the PayPal REST API (https://developer.paypal.com/api/rest/authentication/) using Symfony HttpClient.

PayPal defines a curl request to get the token:

curl -v -X POST "https://api-m.sandbox.paypal.com/v1/oauth2/token" \    -u "<CLIENT_ID>:<CLIENT_SECRET>" \    -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" \    -d "grant_type=client_credentials"

I was trying to do that using HttpClient from Symfony. Without any success unfortunately as I can't figure out how to pass the options.

I tried passing the options with extra.curl using CURLOPT_VERBOSE, CURLOPT_USERNAME, CURLOPT_HEADER (couldn't find a define for the grant_type option).It seems that setting header and verbose mode is not allowed in extra.curl so I tried setting that in the 'body' part instead. That led to 401 then.

Here is what I tried:

$response = $this->httpClient->request('POST', 'https://api-m.sandbox.paypal.com/v1/oauth2/token', ['extra' => ['curl'=> [            CURLOPT_VERBOSE => 1,            CURLOPT_USERNAME => $clientId.':'.$clientSecret,            CURLOPT_HEADER => "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded"        ]    ]]);

And alternatively:

$response = $this->httpClient->request('POST', 'https://api-m.sandbox.paypal.com/v1/oauth2/token', ['body' => ['Content-Type' => 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded','grant_type' => 'client_credentials'    ],'extra' => ['curl'=> [            CURLOPT_USERNAME => $clientId.':'.$clientSecret,        ]    ]]);

I couldn't find any proper HttpClient curl usage examples. So basicaly I am trying to understand how to realize the PayPal Auth request using HttpClient. Any hints on that would be most welcome.