[keycloak-dev] Import users from new User Federation

[Bill Burke]

On 8/18/16 4:59 AM, Stian Thorgersen wrote:
> Bill,
>
> Are you planing to have an option to allow import of users with the 
> new user federation SPI? I'm not convinced we should completely remove 
> this option.
>

The only callback that does not exist in the new SPI is 
validateAndProxy().  With the current federation SPI, the developer 
implements everything themselves for import.  There are no 
synchronization APIs/SPIs either.
> Some use-cases I could imagine:
>
> * Allow users to authenticate even if LDAP server is down
Our current LDAP provider will not work if LDAP is down, even with the 
import :)


> * Allow migrating users away from LDAP

We can do anything we want for our LDAP implementation.  This doesn't 
mean that the SPI should have special support methods and interfaces for 
synchronization and import.

Bill