[keycloak-user] REST API: Create User With Roles

[Bill Burke]

http://keycloak.github.io/docs/rest-api/admin/realms/%7Brealm%7D/users/%7Bid%7D/role-mappings/clients/%7Bclient%7D/index.html

On 8/3/2015 9:48 AM, Edem Morny wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry Bill, I think I'm confusing matters here. The AdminClient I'm
> referring to is not the keycloak-admin-client.jar but rather a
> combination of insights from
> https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/blob/master/examples/demo-template/admin-access-app/src/main/java/org/keycloak/example/AdminClient.java
> and from the documentation in the user guide.
>
> That means I'm constructing the URLs myself to invoke the operation. I
> intend to move to the keycloak-admin-client in the future though.
>
> I can't find the corresponding REST url(s) to invoke to achieve the same
> results as you describe in your response below. I think that's what I need.
> Cheers.
>
>
> On Mon, 2015-08-03 at 09:13 -0400, Bill Burke wrote:
>> If you're just using the admin client interfaces its:
>>
>> realm("realm").users().get("user-id").roles().realmLevel().add(List<RoleRepresentation>
>> rolesToAdd)
>>
>> On 8/3/2015 9:07 AM, Edem Morny wrote:
>> > Hi Bill,
>> >
>> > The adminClient.createUser is my modification of the code situated in
>> > the AdminClient implementation of the "admin-access-app" in the
>> examples.
>> >
>> > Could you point me in the direction of the API calls to do the addition
>> > of the roles? I had a feeling it might be a subsequent step (like for
>> > setting the password, which I actually implemented), but I'm struggling
>> > to find any pointers as to how to do this particular one.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, 2015-08-03 at 08:36 -0400, Bill Burke wrote:
>> >> Is adminClient.createUser(...) your own method? There is a different
>> >> REST API for adding roles.
>> >>
>> >> create the user
>> >> then add the roles
>> >>
>> >> On 8/3/2015 8:23 AM, Edem Morny wrote:
>> >> > Hi,
>> >> >
>> >> > We're currently using Keycloak 1.2.0.Final.
>> >> >
>> >> > We are migrating users from an existing application with it's own
>> user
>> >> > management implementation to Keycloak, and have been making extensive
>> >> > use of the Via the REST api to achieve this. I'm able to create a new
>> >> > user, set their temporary password and so on. However, I'm
>> finding that
>> >> > all our attempts to add the roles to the created user seem not to be
>> >> > taking effect when we observe the newly created user on the keycloak
>> >> > side. Here's the code we are trying to use to do this
>> >> >
>> >> > UserRepresentation user = new UserRepresentation();
>> >> > user.setUsername(username);
>> >> > user.setFirstName(employee.getFirstName());
>> >> > user.setLastName(employee.getLastName());
>> >> > user.setEmail(employee.getEmail());
>> >> > user.setEnabled(true);
>> >> > user.setEmailVerified(false);
>> >> > List<String> requiredActions = new ArrayList<>();
>> >> > requiredActions.add(UserModel.RequiredAction.UPDATE_PASSWORD.name());
>> >> > *List<String> userRoles = getMigrateRoles(employee);*
>> >> > * user.setRealmRoles(userRoles);*
>> >> > user.setRequiredActions(requiredActions);
>> >> > adminClient.createUser(settings.getKeycloackUrl(),
>> >> settings.getRealm(), access, user);
>> >> >
>> >> > It seams setting the list of roles to the Realm Roles isn't enough to
>> >> > the user with these roles. The user gets created alright, but doesn't
>> >> > come with any roles. Is there any other means by which we can specify
>> >> > the user roles during the process of account creation?
>> >> >
>> >> > The migration will be very tedious if we ask the administrators to
>> >> > manually do the assignment of the user to their roles after our
>> current
>> >> > implementation of being able to automatically migrate the user
>> accounts
>> >> > themselves to keycloak.
>> >> >
>> >> >
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