[keycloak-dev] New Account Management Console and Account REST api

[Stan Silvert]

On 3/17/2017 8:09 AM, Stian Thorgersen wrote:
> Had another idea. We could quite easily make it possible to configure 
> the "account management url" for a realm. That would let folks 
> redirect to external account management console if they want to 
> completely override it.
That would also mean that our own account management console could be 
served from anywhere or even installed locally on the client machine.
>
> On 17 March 2017 at 13:08, Stian Thorgersen <sthorger at redhat.com 
> <mailto:sthorger at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     I'm going to call it "YetAnotherJsFramework" ;)
>
>     On 17 March 2017 at 12:54, Stan Silvert <ssilvert at redhat.com
>     <mailto:ssilvert at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>         On 3/17/2017 5:47 AM, Stian Thorgersen wrote:
>         > As we've discussed a few times now the plan is to do a brand
>         new account
>         > management console. Instead of old school forms it will be
>         all modern using
>         > HTML5, AngularJS and REST endpoints.
>         One thing.  That should be "Angular", not "AngularJS".    Just to
>         educate everyone, here is what's going on in Angular-land:
>
>         AngularJS is the old framework we used for the admin console.
>         Angular is the new framework we will use for the account
>         management console.
>
>         Most of you know the new framework as Angular2 or ng-2, but
>         the powers
>         that be want to just call it "Angular".   This framework is
>         completely
>         rewritten and really has no relation to AngularJS, except they
>         both come
>         from Google and both have "Angular" in the name.
>
>         To avoid confusion, I'm going to call it "Angualr2" for the
>         foreseeable
>         future.
>         >
>         > The JIRA for this work is:
>         > https://issues.jboss.org/browse/KEYCLOAK-1250
>         <https://issues.jboss.org/browse/KEYCLOAK-1250>
>         >
>         > We where hoping to get some help from the professional UXP
>         folks for this,
>         > but it looks like that may take some time. In the mean time
>         the plan is to
>         > base it on the following template:
>         >
>         >
>         https://rawgit.com/andresgalante/kc-user/master/layout-alt-fixed.html#
>         <https://rawgit.com/andresgalante/kc-user/master/layout-alt-fixed.html#>
>         >
>         > Also, we'll try to use some newer things from PatternFly
>         patterns to
>         > improve the screens.
>         >
>         > First pass will have the same functionality and behavior as
>         the old account
>         > management console. Second pass will be to improve the
>         usability (pages
>         > like linking, sessions and history are not very nice).
>         >
>         > We will deprecate the old FreeMarker/forms way of doing
>         things, but keep it
>         > around so it doesn't break what people are already doing.
>         This can be
>         > removed in the future (probably RHSSO 8.0?).
>         >
>         > We'll also need to provide full rest endpoints for the
>         account management
>         > console. I'll work on that, while Stan works on the UI.
>         >
>         > As the account management console will be a pure HTML5 and
>         JS app anyone
>         > can completely replace it with a theme. They can also
>         customize it a lot.
>         > We'll also need to make sure it's easy to add additional
>         pages/sections.
>         >
>         > Rather than just add to AccountService I'm going to rename that
>         > to DeprecatedAccountFormService remove all REST from there
>         and add a new
>         > AccountService that only does REST. All features available
>         through forms at
>         > the moment will be available as REST API, with the exception
>         of account
>         > linking which will be done through Bills work that was
>         introduced in 3.0
>         > that allows applications to initiate the account linking.
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