[keycloak-dev] What to do about Java admin client

[Bill Burke]

On 4/5/2016 8:32 AM, Stian Thorgersen wrote:
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> On 5 April 2016 at 14:19, Bill Burke <bburke at redhat.com 
> <mailto:bburke at redhat.com>> wrote:
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>     On 4/5/2016 7:47 AM, Marek Posolda wrote:
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>>>>         2) Use JAX-RS 2 client
>>>         +1
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>>>         But it will be good if people have possibility to configure
>>>         the details of underlying Apache HTTP Client (connection
>>>         pooling, connection/socket timeouts, tls etc). If it's
>>>         possible to achieve it and use JAX-RS 2 client at the same
>>>         time, it will be cool. Otherwise if we need to choose just
>>>         one of these, the "configurability" of Apache HTTP client is
>>>         more important IMO.
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>>>     Sticking with RestEasy Client makes the assumption that all
>>>     users use other JBoss projects. We know that's not true as
>>>     Tomcat, Jetty and Spring adapters all have a lot of use. IMO we
>>>     should either convert to JAX-RS 2 client or use Apache HTTP
>>>     client directly (I'm not to keen on that though).
>>     At least we may just have possibility to inject underlying
>>     javax.ws.rs <http://javax.ws.rs>.client.Client during creation of
>>     admin-client. So if someone is on resteasy and wants to tweak
>>     Apache HTTP Client, he can use RestEasy API to build client by
>>     himself and inject it. If he's using some other library, he would
>>     need to use it's API to build client (and possibly configure
>>     connection pooling etc in library specific way).
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>      If you're using Tomcat, Spring or whatever, anything JBoss is
>     evil and they can't co-exist?  That's ridiculous.  You're really
>     going to stub out every single piece of the REST api and/or write
>     your own tool?  No....
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> What's wrong with JAX-RS 2.0?
The proxy thing is Resteasy specific.  Its not in the spec.

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>     We revise the rest interface.  Either use Resteasy, or they can
>     write their own clients.
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> What are you saying here exactly?

That we use Resteasy to create the admin client.  If somebody doesn't 
want to have a dependency on Resteasy then they are on their own.

-- 
Bill Burke
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