[keycloak-dev] Move email first name, last name and email to be stored as user attribute, not UserModel property?

Stian Thorgersen sthorger at redhat.com
Fri Mar 18 09:46:54 EDT 2016


+1 Primary or "login" email should be left on user entity. We need to
consider how we're going to support having more than one email associated
with one account as well as multiple accounts with same email. I'd say we'd
have a login email, but also contact emails.
On 18 Mar 2016 2:41 p.m., "Marek Posolda" <mposolda at redhat.com> wrote:

> +1 for have unified mapper for properties and attributes. That's very easy
> to do, we can just fallback to setAttribute/getAttribute if there is not
> property . LDAP UserAttribute mapper is already unified and is doing like
> that.
>
> Having the basic attributes in separate table might theoretically have
> some performance impact. For example if email is stored as attribute, then
> each searching by email needs to join 2 tables instead of one. There is
> also DB constraint to enforce unique email. So maybe at least email worth
> to keep as it is?
>
> Marek
>
>
> On 18/03/16 13:36, Stian Thorgersen wrote:
>
> +1 Makes sense to me. Especially the part of not having two different
> mappers. It could still be useful to have a get/set for common attributes,
> but they would just pass through to attributes rather than separate fields.
> On 18 Mar 2016 1:17 p.m., "Vlastimil Elias" <velias at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> as part of planned persistence storage SPI changes we talked about on
>> f2f we should probably consider removing of first name, last name and
>> email from UserModel property, but implement them as normal user
>> attributes with predefined names.
>>
>> This unification should simplify few things, for example separate
>> mappers for attributes and properties in Clients and Identity Providers
>> configuration, which may be hard to understand for beginners (questions
>> like "what the hell is difference between user properties and
>> attributes?", "What user properties are available there?").
>>
>> This should also simplify implementation of User profile validation SPI
>> we talked about on f2f meeting.
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> Vl.
>>
>> --
>> Vlastimil Elias
>> Principal Software Engineer
>> Developer Portal Engineering Team
>>
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