[keycloak-dev] Theme resource provider - ability for custom authenticators to load additional templates

[Stian Thorgersen]

Oh and U2F will most likely land in U2F. Feedback on my experimental
implementation would be great as well :)

On 6 February 2018 at 20:03, Stian Thorgersen <sthorger at redhat.com> wrote:

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> On 6 February 2018 at 18:42, Dmitry Telegin <mitya at cargosoft.ru> wrote:
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>> Hi Stian, nice feature! Is it limited to login themes?
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> Nah, it's a generic theme feature.
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> Not sure I can see any use-cases other than custom providers that need
> additional templates though. At the moment I can only think of
> authenticators and required actions.
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> Did you have any other use-cases in mind?
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>> BTW the correct link is https://github.com/stianst/
>> keycloak-experimental/tree/master/fido-u2f
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>> Also nice to hear that the work has finally started on U2F, it's indeed a
>> must-have feature today. Is it slated for 4.0.0?
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>> Dmitry
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>> I was experimenting with a custom authenticator and found it annoying that
>> I had to copy templates manually to the themes directory.
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>> To resolve this I added a Theme Resource Provider SPI.
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>> A theme resource provider can provide additional templates and/or resources
>> alongside the custom authenticator.
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>> Themes are always searched first for templates and resources. Template
>> resource providers are only searched if not found in themes. This is
>> important as it allows a theme to override the templates and/or resources
>> provided by a theme resource provider.
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>> The code is ready in the PR https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/pull/4971
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>> For an example on how it's used take a look at
>> https://github.com/stianst/keycloak-experimental/tree/master/u2f.
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