[keycloak-dev] Programatic configuration

[Stian Thorgersen]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bruno Oliveira" <bruno at abstractj.org>
> To: "Stian Thorgersen" <stian at redhat.com>
> Cc: "keycloak dev" <keycloak-dev at lists.jboss.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, 25 November, 2014 1:29:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [keycloak-dev] Programatic configuration
> 
> On 2014-11-25, Stian Thorgersen wrote:
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Bruno Oliveira" <bruno at abstractj.org>
> > > To: "keycloak dev" <keycloak-dev at lists.jboss.org>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, 25 November, 2014 12:22:22 PM
> > > Subject: [keycloak-dev] Programatic configuration
> > >
> > > Good morning, we've been discussing the following workflow on AeroGear:
> > >
> > > First time
> > >
> > > 1. Developer create an UPS instance on OpenShift
> > > 2. Visit https://myups-abstractj.rhcloud.com/ag-push
> > > 3. The application automagically redirect to the configuration page the
> > > with
> > > options default or Custom — where default make use of the embbeded
> > > Keycloak on UPS and custom our developer would be able to specify
> > > another Keycloak instance (http://andresgalante.com/configuration/)
> > > 4. App changes the keycloak.json/ups-realm.json file based on the URL
> > > provided.
> > >
> > > Second time
> > >
> > > 1. Visit https://myups-abstractj.rhcloud.com/ag-push
> > > 2. The application check if some configuration already exists (default
> > > or custom)
> > > 3. Redirect users to UPS login page or Keycloak login page. It pretty
> > > much depends.
> > >
> > > I would like to programatically change (via Java) `ups-realm.json`,
> > > `keycloak.json`
> > > and `admin-ui-keycloak.json`. See
> > > https://github.com/abstractj/aerogear-unifiedpush-server/commit/e8fc8461fea69801cc495127a88aff05a55c68cd#diff-356b0e49e775810162fd2be9110bb5f4R3
> > >
> > > Possible alternatives off the top of my head:
> > >
> > > 1. Read/manipulate JSON files from the database and provide
> > > `keycloak.json`
> > > and
> > > `admin-ui-keycloak.json` as a resource like Keycloak team did for
> > > JavaScript
> > > https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/blob/master/services/src/main/java/org/keycloak/services/resources/JsResource.java
> > > 2. Dinamically generate to a shared place on WildFly `keycloak.json` and
> > > `admin-ui-keycloak.json` files.
> > >
> > > Do you have a better idea?
> >
> > Is it only the auth-server url you're changing? keycloak.json supports
> > system properties so you can use for example { "auth-server" :
> > "${keycloak.url}" }. If you do that you don't have to rewrite the file at
> > all.
> 
> Yes! That's gorgeous! Am I supposed to define it during the bootstrap?
> For ups-realm.json file, I'm considering to make use of
> AdapterDeploymentContext like we did in the past, because the redirect
> url must dinamically change
> https://github.com/abstractj/aerogear-unifiedpush-server/commit/e8fc8461fea69801cc495127a88aff05a55c68cd#diff-b8df82f22499b0118c37e0e363c4342aR80

How would AdapterDeploymentContext work for a remote KC server?

In the past I had an idea of adding support for server aliases, so you could for example do "http://${ups}/ag-push" as the redirect-uri in KC. Then we could provide some easy way to manage server-aliases, even allowing it to resolve to one or more urls.

> >
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance.
> > >
> > >
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