[keycloak-dev] [keycloak-user] Location of User Federation Provider jar in Keycloak 1.1 Beta-2

[Stan Silvert]

I tested exploded mode yesterday with the latest release and it worked 
fine for me.  Maybe you exploded it at the wrong directory level?

On 1/16/2015 9:50 AM, Marek Posolda wrote:
> On 16.1.2015 15:20, Stan Silvert wrote:
>> On 1/16/2015 9:07 AM, Stian Thorgersen wrote:
>>> Currently, I'm not overly happy with releasing 1.1.0.Final and it's 
>>> down to this issue. I should have raised it before, but it 
>>> completely slipped my mind :(
>> We did talk about this at great length before.   I tried and tried to
>> preserve the "drop it in the file system" approach.  It just plain won't
>> work for domains.
>>> IMO we need:
>>>
>>> 1. A usable way to deploy a provider without using the CLI GUI
>>> 2. Ideally be able to deploy a provider with an offline server
>> We have 5 ways to add a provider:
>> 1. CLI
>> 2. CLI GUI
>> 3. CLI script
>> 4. Explode the WAR in the subsystem and drop it in WEB-INF/lib
> I've just tried the exploded WAR approach, but had some issues. What I 
> did with keycloak appliance was:
> - Change the WAR file in 
> modules/system/layers/base/org/keycloak/keycloak-subsystem/main/auth-server/keycloak-server-1.1.0.Final-SNAPSHOT.war 
> to be exploded
> - Change the configuration property "auth-server-exploded" to true in 
> modules/system/layers/base/org/keycloak/keycloak-subsystem/main/module.xml
>
> With this auth-server didn't bootstrap for me at startup. Once I added 
> provider to exploded WAR and pack it back to be file instead of 
> directory, it started to work and my provider is found.
>
> So in shortcut, adding provider in offline mode works, but I needed 
> to: unpack, copy provider JAR, pack it back.
>
> Did I something wrong to have exploded WAR working? Also can subsystem 
> work with having exploded WAR by default? In this case it will be easy 
> to add provider in offline mode as people can just copy them to 
> unpacked location inside keycloak subsystem .
>
> Sorry if you already discuss this possibility, I may miss some details 
> in previous discussion related to this;-)
>
> Marek
>
>> 5. Use the war dist and do it the old way.
>>
>> Why are these not sufficient?
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Stan Silvert" <ssilvert at redhat.com>
>>>> To: "Stian Thorgersen" <stian at redhat.com>
>>>> Cc: keycloak-user at lists.jboss.org
>>>> Sent: Friday, 16 January, 2015 2:13:24 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [keycloak-user] Location of User Federation Provider 
>>>> jar in Keycloak 1.1 Beta-2
>>>>
>>>> On 1/16/2015 2:19 AM, Stian Thorgersen wrote:
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>> From: "Stan Silvert" <ssilvert at redhat.com>
>>>>>> To: "Stian Thorgersen" <stian at redhat.com>
>>>>>> Cc: keycloak-user at lists.jboss.org
>>>>>> Sent: Thursday, 15 January, 2015 9:23:48 PM
>>>>>> Subject: Re: [keycloak-user] Location of User Federation Provider 
>>>>>> jar in
>>>>>> Keycloak 1.1 Beta-2
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 1/15/2015 9:29 AM, Stian Thorgersen wrote:
>>>>>>> How is a provider added using the CLI? I can't find any examples 
>>>>>>> on that.
>>>>>> In the doc there is a step-by-step example of how to do it.  See 
>>>>>> section
>>>>>> 3.4.2.2.
>>>>>> http://docs.jboss.org/keycloak/docs/1.1.0.Beta2/userguide/html/server-installation.html#d4e350 
>>>>>>
>>>>> That example uses the CLI GUI, we need one that uses plain CLI
>>>> Plain CLI is harder in this case.  CLI GUI lets you browse for the 
>>>> file
>>>> you need.   Overall, plain CLI is a lot more error prone.
>>>>
>>>> If you do this once in CLI GUI then you will generate the CLI command
>>>> that you can cut and paste into plain CLI or a script.  But if you 
>>>> want,
>>>> I can include an example of that command.
>>>>> There's also another issue with this approach, which I didn't 
>>>>> stress enough
>>>>> last time around, it requires the server to be running to add 
>>>>> providers.
>>>>> That makes it much harder to for example create a Docker cartridge 
>>>>> that
>>>>> includes some custom providers.
>>>> Perhaps we just need to document the fact that you can still 
>>>> explode the
>>>> WAR and do it the old way?
>>>>>>> Also, there are still several references in the docs and 
>>>>>>> examples that
>>>>>>> uses
>>>>>>> the old approach of copying to WEB-INF/lib.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>>>> From: "Stan Silvert" <ssilvert at redhat.com>
>>>>>>>> To: keycloak-user at lists.jboss.org
>>>>>>>> Sent: Thursday, 15 January, 2015 2:09:56 PM
>>>>>>>> Subject: Re: [keycloak-user] Location of User Federation 
>>>>>>>> Provider jar in
>>>>>>>> Keycloak 1.1 Beta-2
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Providers are now uploaded using WildFly CLI or CLI GUI.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> See
>>>>>>>> http://docs.jboss.org/keycloak/docs/1.1.0.Beta2/userguide/html/server-installation.html#d4e350 
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 1/15/2015 6:46 AM, prab rrrr wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I created a custom User Federation Provider and deployed it as 
>>>>>>>> per the
>>>>>>>> documentation. It worked in earlier versions (1.1 Beta-1) but 
>>>>>>>> it appears
>>>>>>>> that the location of Keycloak war in Wildfly has changed in 1.1 
>>>>>>>> Beta-2
>>>>>>>> version and it is no longer inflated. Can someone suggest where 
>>>>>>>> exactly
>>>>>>>> I
>>>>>>>> have to place the Federation provider jar in 1.1 Beta-2 version?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>> Raghu
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
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