[keycloak-dev] need feedback on pluggable fed console UI

[Stian Thorgersen]

By the way I did a prototype of a very basic extendible console a while back, maybe something useful in there:

https://github.com/stianst/experiments/tree/master/console

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stian Thorgersen" <stian at redhat.com>
> To: "Bill Burke" <bburke at redhat.com>
> Cc: keycloak-dev at lists.jboss.org
> Sent: Wednesday, 30 July, 2014 12:24:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [keycloak-dev] need feedback on pluggable fed console UI
> 
> I think it's perfectly fine to configure these through keycloak-server.json
> for now. It's an advanced use-case after all.
> 
> Providing this feature properly is going to be quite tricky and time
> consuming I think. A few thoughts about this:
> 
> * We should at least look at UberFire
> * If we do this - bootstrapping of providers should be done by retrieving the
> config for the console from the server (list of SPIs, providers, etc.) then
> this should be used to load scripts (through js) and add config to the
> routeprovider
> * I'm still not convinced that this can't be achieved in a generic way -
> creating jax-rs, js scripts and html files for a provider is a big overhead
> (and would require developers to learn a lot of new tech)
> * Resources/connections such as email servers, ldap servers, databases, etc.
> should be configured globally and referenced from the realm - basically what
> datasources do in an app server
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Bill Burke" <bburke at redhat.com>
> > To: keycloak-dev at lists.jboss.org
> > Sent: Tuesday, 29 July, 2014 11:42:56 PM
> > Subject: [keycloak-dev] need feedback on pluggable fed console UI
> > 
> > I'm kind of at a block with providing an SPI to plugin federation
> > provider console UIs.
> > 
> > I would need to:
> > 
> > 1. Provide a way to dynamically load the javascript of the plug
> > - index.html could be processed with Freemarker or some other brute
> > force means to add the appropriate <script> elements
> > - Could add <script> tags within javascript (not sure about this, see
> > $routeProvider
> > 
> > 2. $routeProvider can only be set up once it seems?  Function pointers
> > need to already be established for controllers.
> > 
> > 3. We have to worry about name clashes with other admin console angular
> > components?
> > 
> > I'm just not sure I want to create a full-fledged "portlet" spi at this
> > late juncture.  My thinking is to hard code LDAP and any other provider
> > has to be configured through keycloak_server.json or via a generic
> > properties page.
> > 
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