[keycloak-dev] Shortening URLs

[Bill Burke]

We can't remove "realms" qualifier unless the admin REST interface is 
exposed under an entirely different WAR root context.




On 1/23/2015 10:28 AM, Bill Burke wrote:
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> On 1/23/2015 9:36 AM, Bill Burke wrote:
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>> On 1/23/2015 6:23 AM, Stian Thorgersen wrote:
>>> Our URLs are quite long, examples:
>>>
>>> * http://localhost:8080/auth/realms/master/protocols/openid-connect/login
>>> * http://localhost:8080/auth/realms/master/account
>>>
>>> We could remove the 'realms' part and 'protocols' parts couldn't we?
>>>
>>> * http://localhost:8080/auth/master/oidc/login
>>> * http://localhost:8080/auth/master/account
>>>
>>> That would require moving everything under a realm and I guess we'd need to hard-wire the protocols, but I think that should be fine.
>>>
>>
>> Wouldn't work for multiple reasons.
>>
>> * protocols/* exists to be able to plugin different protocols (oidc,
>> saml, etc.)
>> * Because of the crappy way JAX-RS dispatch algorithm handles wildcards
>> for both resource classes and resource locators we need both a "realms"
>> and "protocols" qualifier.
>>
>> Its really funny you bring this up now because I've renewed my argument
>> with JAX-RS JSR just 2 minutes ago!  Synchronicity!
>>
>
> Bah!  Scratch that...I think we might be able to remove "realms" so long
> as we don't add any other root context wildcard resource classes.  Using
> a wildcard only for "protocols" might paint us in a corner as there may
> be other wildcard resources we want to add in the future.
>

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