[keycloak-dev] Filtering in New Account Console

[Bruno Oliveira]

On 2019-10-03, Stian Thorgersen wrote:
> Simply returning all clients is not going to work for a few reasons:
> 
> * It will return clients that are not applications/UIs
> * It can return applications the user doesn't have access to
> * There can be thousands (in fact we know about users with 10K+ clients)
> 
> That means we need the following:
> 
> 1) Limit clients returned by the REST endpoint to only those that are
> indeed applications/UIs

That makes sense, at the same time, not part of our requirements into the
Jira: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/KEYCLOAK-5628.

Doug is working on it, and if there's anything that has to change, I'd
suggest we bring this up in the same Jira.

> 2) Limit applications to those the user has access to

Same as my previous comment

> 3) Support filtering and pagination (even though 1 and 2 most likely will
> significantly reduce the number of applications to 10s of applications, we
> still need to have pagination and filtering support)

We have a Jira for filtering, but not for pagination. 
See: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/KEYCLOAK-11534. But if you think
pagination should also be a part of it, please let us know. Just keep in
mind that this is not part of our plans at the moment.

Do you really think we need to implement pagination for Applications
endpoint right now? Based on the requirements you described, I don't see
a user with 2000 applications. Just look at how many applications you
have linked into your GH or FB profile.

Maybe this is something we could postpone? Unless I'm missing something,
I don't see a real need to do it right now.

> 
> Some ideas on how we can achieve the above:
> 
> 1) Figuring out what is indeed applications/UIs
> 
> List applications that are added to open sessions, including the below:
> 
> * All OIDC clients where: client.baseUrl != null && !client.bearerOnly
> * All SAML clients where: client.baseUrl != null**
> 
> This will make sure we only include applications where the user can
> actually click on the application in the list to go to the application.
> 
> ** Not sure if there's anything in addition to check for SAML
> 
> 2) Limit applications to those the user has access to
> 
> Not sure about this one as we don't really have an easy way to figure out
> if a user has access the an application or not. One idea would be to only
> include clients where user has at least one client role. Even if the
> application doesn't use client roles directly a "dummy" role can be created
> for this purpose by admins/developers.
> 
> 3) Pagination and filtering
> 
> All endpoints should support pagination and filtering by design. Pagination
> and filtering should be server-side (REST endpoint should provide according
> to our REST guidelines).

+1 for most of the ideas, except for implementing pagination right now.

> 
> On Wed, 2 Oct 2019 at 19:11, Stan Silvert <ssilvert at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Specifically, we need to discuss filtering and pagination as it relates
> > to the "Applications" page:
> >
> > https://marvelapp.com/c90dfi0/screen/59942290
> >
> > The current design allows filtering by name and application type.
> >
> > However, Stian has pointed out that some customers will have thousands
> > of clients.  So this design might be unworkable.
> >
> > I don't want to go too far into the weeds right now because I want to
> > understand the problem better first.
> >
> > What is the use case when customers have many, many clients?
> >
> > How common is it to have many, many clients for a single user?
> >
> > What do those clients look like?
> >
> > What could we use to filter on?  The information we currently have on
> > the client side looks something like what you see here:
> >
> > https://marvelapp.com/c90dfi0/screen/59942292
> >
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