[keycloak-dev] Device mgmt

[Matthias Wessendorf]

On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 7:19 PM, Bill Burke <bburke at redhat.com> wrote:

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> On 1/24/2014 12:54 PM, Matthias Wessendorf wrote:
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>> +1 on this scenario
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>> There is a different scenario:
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>> * the mobile app does not require an actual user (e.g. think about
>> something like a News-App (e.g. "ESPN Sports Ticker")), but the device
>> still needs to be registered w/ a server, so that the server later can
>> use the device metadata for sending push notifications to the iOS /
>> Android device. The AeroGear UnifiedPush Server is doing it (currently)
>> via HTTP Basic (see [1]).
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> In this case, couldn't the device just use the registration API?


Of the UnifiedPush Server? Sure!

I was just wondering if you guys are interested in this scenario as well.



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>> Is this some scenario you are interested in supporting as well? Or is
>> the (current) focus more around storing 'devices' / 'device metadata'
>> under a real user (which is most-likely a pure enterprise use-case)?
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> IMO, its not a pure enterprise use case.  I access my brokerage acct via
> my ipad and browser via the same credentials.


yep, I was more saying that requiring a user in order to use a mobile app
is a bit more enterprise-like (sure: Twitter/FB are NOT enterprise), than
have no user required at all(like the mentioned sports-news-ticker).

So the brokerage could be even done on your iPad, your Android phone, your
browser, etc ;-)

-Matthias



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