[keycloak-dev] Merge of keycloak-nodejs-connect and keycloak-nodejs-auth-utils

Luke Holmquist lholmqui at redhat.com
Wed Sep 28 09:27:44 EDT 2016


that "retrieving" of a token sounds familiar,  would the
keycloak-request-token,
https://github.com/bucharest-gold/keycloak-request-token be useful here.  I
have a feeling that this project duplicates some of the auth-utils
functionality

On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 7:41 AM, Bruno Oliveira <bruno at abstractj.org> wrote:

> Thanks for clarifying Sebi. In this case, let's leave it as is.
>
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 8:26 AM Sebastien Blanc <sblanc at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Bruno Oliveira <bruno at abstractj.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2016-09-27, Sebastien Blanc wrote:
>>> > I know at least one project (a mbass solution)  that is planning to
>>> replace
>>> > some "manual" code by using the keycloak-nodejs-auth-utils module.
>>> It's in
>>> > an integration layer and it only needs to handle token/grant retrieval
>>> and
>>> > refresh.
>>>
>>> In this scenario, they don't have connect or express? If possible,
>>> would you mind to elaborate more?
>>>
>>
>> Sure. In this use case the nodejs app act as a "client" for a third
>> application (the UnifiedPush Server) that is protected by KC. The
>> authentification system of the whole system is not based on KC (not yet ;)
>> ) and for now the nodejs needs to retrieve "manually" a token to be able to
>> pass it to the requests to the UPS.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> > But I don't think it would be a real problem if this module  is merged
>>> > with connect.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 10:59 AM, Bruno Oliveira <bruno at abstractj.org>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >
>>> > > Good morning,
>>> > >
>>> > > Today the only use case scenario for
>>> > > keycloak-nodejs-auth-utils is the usage with keycloak-nodejs-connect
>>> for
>>> > > authorization. Besides that I don't see any reason to have it as a
>>> > > separate module. Unless we have plans for new modules like Passport
>>> > > strategies, or embed the authorization bits in some framework
>>> > > non-related with Connect.
>>> > >
>>> > > What do you guys think about merge auth-utils codebase into
>>> > > keycloak-nodejs-connect?
>>> > >
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