From stian at redhat.com Wed Jul 30 07:24:42 2014
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From: Stian Thorgersen <stian at redhat.com>
To: keycloak-dev at lists.jboss.org
Subject: Re: [keycloak-dev] need feedback on pluggable fed console UI
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 07:24:42 -0400
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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 consum=
ing 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 t=
he config for the console from the server (list of SPIs, providers, etc.) t=
hen 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 - cr=
eating 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 w=
hat datasources do in an app server

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Burke" <bburke(a)redhat.com>
> To: keycloak-dev(a)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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