[keycloak-dev] Packaging of ApacheDS for examples?

[Stian Thorgersen]

I don't like option a. Why is option c much more work? Doesn't seem like it should be that hard.

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marek Posolda" <mposolda at redhat.com>
> To: keycloak-dev at lists.jboss.org
> Sent: Tuesday, 30 June, 2015 3:12:41 PM
> Subject: [keycloak-dev] Packaging of ApacheDS for examples?
> 
> I am thinking about adding LDAP example, which can be used as a base for LDAP
> mappers based blog and screencast.
> 
> It will contain the application to show some claims (also both singlevalued
> and multivalued attributes). It will also contain JSON realm with
> UserFederation configuration pointing to our ApacheDS and LDIF with some
> simple users for testing. I already added end-to-end test to the testsuite
> (LDAPMultipleAttributesTest.ldapPortalEndToEndTest )
> 
> 
> The only possible problem is how to easily bootstrap ApacheDS based LDAP
> servers in user's environment. I am thinking about 3 approaches:
> 
> a) Point to the embedded ApacheDS server from our testsuite. This will be
> easy to do and it's what Kerberos example is already doing . Problem is that
> it requires people to checkout the keycloak sources through github and build
> them through maven, so not very user friendly
> 
> b) Create docker image for ApacheDS servers (one for ldap example and another
> for kerberos). Not sure if it's fine to require users to install docker
> (even more pain might be on windows, when they need boot2docker or
> something...)
> 
> c) Packaging with ApacheDS based servers directly into our example package,
> so people can just run something like:
> 
> java -jar keycloak-examples/ldap/apacheds-embedded.jar
> -Dldif.location=keycloak-examples/ldap/example.ldif
> 
> and similarly for kerberos.
> 
> For me it's easiest to go with (a) but not sure about usability... Regarding
> usability (c) looks best but it's much more work.
> 
> WDYT?
> Marek
> 
> 
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