[keycloak-user] Multiple calls required to create a user

[Tom Pearson]

Okay, understood. Would be great if the admin docs could be updated to
reflect the implementation although I appreciate you probably have more
important matter to attend to.

2016-08-09 14:31 GMT+02:00 Bill Burke <bburke at redhat.com>:

>
>
> On 8/9/16 5:56 AM, Tom Pearson wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm creating a new user through the admin API. In order to do this I have
> to make 3 separate calls (createUser
> <http://www.keycloak.org/docs/rest-api/index.html#_create_a_new_user>,
> resetPassword
> <http://www.keycloak.org/docs/rest-api/index.html#_set_up_a_temporary_password_for_the_user>
>  and addRealmLevelRoles
> <http://www.keycloak.org/docs/rest-api/index.html#_add_realm_level_role_mappings_to_the_user_2>)
> as the credentials and realm roles in the UserRepresentation
> <http://www.keycloak.org/docs/rest-api/index.html#_userrepresentation> are
> ignored. I then have to make another call to getEffectiveRealmLevelRoles
> <http://www.keycloak.org/docs/rest-api/index.html#_get_effective_realm_level_role_mappings_2> as
> the getUser
> <http://www.keycloak.org/docs/rest-api/index.html#_get_represenation_of_the_user> method
> doesn't return the roles. If I were to require the client level roles this
> would be 6 calls to create and return the user.
>
> Is there a reason as to why this is the case?
>
> The reason is simply that the admin API was written for the admin
> console.  We've never had time to refactor it.  Too many other things on
> the queue.
>
> As an aside, in the docs the reset password method is called "Set up a
> temporary password for the user" but in my experience the password is never
> temporary regardless of the value of the temporary flag.
>
> Kind regards,
> Tom
>
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