Re: [keycloak-user] Multiple calls required to create a user

You can send PRs to admin docs if you want. admin REST API is here: https://github.com/keycloak/server_development_guide On 8/9/16 9:14 AM, Tom Pearson wrote: Okay, understood. Would be great if the admin docs could be updated to reflect the implementation although I appreciate you probably have more important matter to attend to. 2016-08-09 14:31 GMT+02:00 Bill Burke <bburke(a)redhat.com&gt;: > > > On 8/9/16 5:56 AM, Tom Pearson wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm creating a new user through the admin API. In order to do this I have > to make 3 separate calls (createUser > <http://www.keycloak.org/docs/rest-api/index.html#_create_a_new_user>;, > resetPassword > <http://www.keycloak.org/docs/rest-api/index.html#_set_up_a_temporary_pass... > and addRealmLevelRoles > <http://www.keycloak.org/docs/rest-api/index.html#_add_realm_level_role_ma...>) > as the credentials and realm roles in the UserRepresentation > <http://www.keycloak.org/docs/rest-api/index.html#_userrepresentation> are > ignored. I then have to make another call to getEffectiveRealmLevelRoles > <http://www.keycloak.org/docs/rest-api/index.html#_get_effective_realm_lev... as > the getUser > <http://www.keycloak.org/docs/rest-api/index.html#_get_represenation_of_th... method > doesn't return the roles. If I were to require the client level roles this > would be 6 calls to create and return the user. > > Is there a reason as to why this is the case? > > The reason is simply that the admin API was written for the admin > console. We've never had time to refactor it. Too many other things on > the queue. > > As an aside, in the docs the reset password method is called "Set up a > temporary password for the user" but in my experience the password is never > temporary regardless of the value of the temporary flag. > > Kind regards, > Tom > > > _______________________________________________ > keycloak-user mailing listkeycloak-user@lists.jboss.orghttps://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/keycloak-user > > _______________________________________________ keycloak-user mailing > list keycloak-user(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailma > n/listinfo/keycloak-user