[keycloak-dev] Provider config

[Stian Thorgersen]

Sounds like you've thought about this more than me, so I'll leave it with you to sort out ;)

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Burke" <bburke at redhat.com>
> To: "Stian Thorgersen" <stian at redhat.com>
> Cc: keycloak-dev at lists.jboss.org
> Sent: Tuesday, 22 July, 2014 4:57:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [keycloak-dev] Provider config
> 
> 
> 
> On 7/22/2014 9:53 AM, Stian Thorgersen wrote:
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Bill Burke" <bburke at redhat.com>
> >> To: "Stian Thorgersen" <stian at redhat.com>
> >> Cc: keycloak-dev at lists.jboss.org
> >> Sent: Tuesday, 22 July, 2014 2:43:11 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [keycloak-dev] Provider config
> >>
> >> Certain providers may have multiple instances/configs of themselves in
> >> the same realm.  i.e. authentication providers (soon to be federation
> >> providers) which may be federating multiple different LDAP databases.
> >> Also, in the future, social may turn into a "federated broker SPI" where
> >> multiple generic federated broker providers can be configured per realm
> >> (i.e. SAML or other openid connections).
> >
> > Didn't consider that, we'll definitively need it
> >
> 
> In my private fork, I pulled getProviderFactory methods from
> DefaultKeycloakSessionFactory up to KeycloakSessionFactory methods.
> Then defined my own specialized create methods.  I don't use
> KeycloakSession.getProvider() anymore.
> 
> 
> >>
> >> I honestly don't want a generic "provider" admin console page where you
> >> generically configure the providers.  I think it is a mistake.  We're
> >> supposed to be making things easier and we should be making tailored
> >> console pages for what we ship out of the box.
> >
> > What about we allow configuring specific SPIs in the correct place, but
> > still use a form that is populated with labels/inputs from the providers
> > ConfigOptions?
> >
> 
> LDAP config already doesn't fit into pure labels/inputs.  IMO, rendering
> information belongs in HTML :)
> 
> 
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