[keycloak-dev] Provider config

[Bill Burke]

That's doesn't necessarily my thoughts are any good though.  I'll 
iterate you can reiterate I guess...

On 7/22/2014 12:19 PM, Stian Thorgersen wrote:
> 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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>> Bill Burke
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