[keycloak-dev] Associate social account with IDM user

[Marek Posolda]

Hi,

Here is Marek Posolda from GateIn/JPP software engineering :-)

Picketlink IDM is quite flexible and I think that there are more 
possibilities how to map it. What I am thinking about could be:

1) Map the attributes related to all social providers directly as part 
of User itself. UserAdapter object (and also user representation in 
Picketlink) has support for dynamic attributes via method 
setAttribute/getAttribute . So it should be possible to use attributes 
with any name and just prefix them for given social network (For 
example: attribute "social.facebook.username" could be used for saving 
of Facebook username, attribute "social.google.username" for saving of 
google username or email)

2) Create another Relationship adapter object and store the informations 
as relationship between User and Social provider. Picketlink supports 
attributes to be part of any Relationship, so it should be possible to 
achieve this.

Another thing is, how to wire some social provider with existing User 
accounts in UI. Actually the Social links are available just on 
registration page, which is for anonymous user.

Marek

On 13.8.2013 12:43, Stian Thorgersen wrote:
> We need to be able to associate multiple social providers with an IDM user. At the moment this is not based on the username of the account (for example google.23897892sdf). This has to main drawbacks:
>
> * Horrible username
> * Can only associate a single social account with an IDM user
>
> What is the best way to store this information? We mainly need to store what social providers a user has linked and the social userid. In the future we may also want to associate access tokens as well. We also need to lookup a user based on the social provider + social userid.
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