[keycloak-dev] Allow to search for users by exact attribute match.

[Thomas Darimont]

Hello,

I created: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/KEYCLOAK-2343 to track this.

Cheers,
Thomas

2016-01-19 10:15 GMT+01:00 Thomas Darimont <thomas.darimont at googlemail.com>:

> Okay, how about offering a new search method that accepts s UserSearch DTO
> that would hold the attributes to search by
> as well as a "match mode". Could also be used to specify pagination.
>
> This could also be send via a @POST in order to avoid retaining userdata
> like usernames, email addresses etc. in
> access logs...
>
> Alternatively you could introduce a searchExact(..) method with the same
> parameterization as the existing search method.
>
> 2016-01-19 10:07 GMT+01:00 Stian Thorgersen <sthorger at redhat.com>:
>
>> It was by design, but it wasn't a good design. Would be better to make it
>> match exact, but allow including a wildcard to make it fuzzy.
>>
>> On 19 January 2016 at 09:58, Thomas Darimont <
>> thomas.darimont at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I was looking for a way to query users based on their exact username but
>>> it turned out, that
>>>   org.keycloak.admin.client.resource.UsersResource.search(String,
>>> String, String, String, Integer, Integer)
>>>
>>>   @GET
>>>   @Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
>>>   List<UserRepresentation> search(@QueryParam("username") String
>>> username,
>>>                                        @QueryParam("firstName") String
>>> firstName,
>>>                                        @QueryParam("lastName") String
>>> lastName,
>>>                                        @QueryParam("email") String email,
>>>                                        @QueryParam("first") Integer
>>> firstResult,
>>>                                        @QueryParam("max") Integer
>>> maxResults);
>>>
>>>   ...
>>>   usersResource.search("exactusername",null,null, null, null, email, 0,
>>> 10)
>>>
>>> generates a like %..% query in
>>> JpaUserProvider.searchForUserByAttributes(...).
>>>
>>> Since usernames are unique per realm I think it would make sense to be
>>> able to perform a
>>> query for the exact username (or perhaps the combination of other
>>> attributes as well).
>>>
>>> Was this omitted by design, or may I create a JIRA for this?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Thomas
>>>
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>>
>>
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