[keycloak-dev] apps access to and refresh of facebook tokens

Pedro Igor Silva psilva at redhat.com
Thu Feb 26 13:16:34 EST 2015


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Burke" <bburke at redhat.com>
> To: "Pedro Igor Silva" <psilva at redhat.com>
> Cc: keycloak-dev at lists.jboss.org
> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 2:09:09 PM
> Subject: Re: [keycloak-dev] apps access to and refresh of facebook tokens
> 
> 
> 
> On 2/26/2015 11:09 AM, Pedro Igor Silva wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Bill Burke" <bburke at redhat.com>
> >> To: keycloak-dev at lists.jboss.org
> >> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 12:42:19 PM
> >> Subject: [keycloak-dev] apps access to and refresh of facebook tokens
> >>
> >> At least for openid connect, I think we hashed this through on our dev
> >> call today.
> >>
> >> * There will be a Protocol Claim Mapper that can add a facebook token
> >> and expiration claim to the application's access token.
> >
> > I would create a specific claim set for that instead of individual claims.
> > Something like:
> >
> > "k_act" : {
> >      "identity-provider": {
> >          "id" : "facebook",
> >          "access_token": "12312312",
> >          "expires": "12312321"
> >      }
> > }
> >
> > (k_act : keycloak authentication context)
> >
> > That way we can use this k_act for exchange information regarding the
> > authentication context when issuing access tokens or even id tokens.
> >
> 
> Yeah, token mapping be able to generate any json you want.
> 
> >> * the refreshToken endpoint will accept a "scope" parameter.  The
> >> application can then request the refresh of any external token by
> >> specifying this token in the "scope parameter.
> >
> > I was thinking about adding a refreshToken endpoint to the identity broker.
> > Isn't better ?
> >
> 
> A different endpoint would require the identity broker to know if the
> app has permission to request it. Also, with my idea, you can refresh
> multiple things with one request.
> 
>  From an application perspective we can provide a
> KeycloakSecurityContext.refreshToken(String... scope) method, then the
> app has one place to request the refresh of one or more claims.
> 
> i.e.
> 
> token = context.refreshToken("facebook", "google");
> 
> String facebookToken = token.getClaim("broker.facebook.token");

I'm still not sure if this is right. Specially when using scopes for that.

Regarding app permissions, know if an app has an identity provider enabled and has access to retrieve its tokens is not enough ?

And we can also provide a single place to request refresh for multiple claims.

> 
> 
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