[keycloak-dev] Support for themes in the new deployer

[Dmitry Telegin]

Created https://issues.jboss.org/browse/KEYCLOAK-4211 id="-x-evo-
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> Yes that would be great and would be nice if we  could also  drop
> just a 'standalone' theme (not bundled with a provider) zip into the
> deployment folder 
> Le mar. 10 janv. 2017 à 06:09, Stian Thorgersen <sthorger at redhat.com>
> a écrit :
> > +1
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > It should be fairly simple to achieve as we have support for
> > pluggable
> > 
> > theme providers (
> > 
> > https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/blob/master/server-spi-private
> > /src/main/java/org/keycloak/theme/ThemeProvider.java
> > 
> > ).
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On 9 January 2017 at 22:05, Dmitry Telegin <mitya at cargosoft.ru>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > 
> > >
> > 
> > > The new provider deployer is incredibly cool! But could this
> > approach
> > 
> > > be extended to themes, so that they'd be deployed from the same
> > 
> > > archive?
> > 
> > >
> > 
> > > As of 2.5.0, the preferred way to deploy providers is via the
> > 
> > > "deployments" directory. But let's imagine a complete Keycloak
> > 
> > > extension that comprises several providers and a GUI theme. ATM,
> > there
> > 
> > > are three deployment options:
> > 
> > > - old school: package everything into a JAR and deploy it as a
> > module;
> > 
> > > - package providers and themes separately, deploy the former via
> > the
> > 
> > > new mechanism and the latter as a module;
> > 
> > > - package everything into a single JAR and deploy via the new
> > 
> > > mechanism. This dynamically deployed module, according to
> > JBoss/WildFly
> > 
> > > conventions, will be named "deployment.my-module-XYZ.jar"; use
> > this
> > 
> > > name in the main config to load theme from the module. This is
> > hacky
> > 
> > > and requires restart, which renders unusable the whole idea of
> > hot
> > 
> > > (re)deployment.
> > 
> > >
> > 
> > > However, there could be another option, more natural and simple
> > one,
> > 
> > > that is to automatically deploy providers *and* themes from the
> > same
> > 
> > > archive placed into the "deployments" directory. What do you
> > think?
> > 
> > >
> > 
> > > Cheers,
> > 
> > > Dmitry
> > 
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