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

[Thomas Darimont]

Hello Tom,

I was also bitten by this a bit... I created [0] and already issued a PR
[1] that allows
creating a user with initial realm / client roles with a single request.

Cheers,
Thomas

[0] https://issues.jboss.org/browse/KEYCLOAK-3410
[1] https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/pull/3120

2016-08-09 15:20 GMT+02:00 Tom Pearson <tpearson at bkool.com>:

> Ok cheers, will do when I get a sec
>
> 2016-08-09 15:16 GMT+02:00 Bill Burke <bburke at redhat.com>:
>
>> You can send PRs to admin docs if you want.  admin REST API is here:
>>
>> https://github.com/keycloak/server_development_guide
>>
>>
>>
>> On 8/9/16 9:14 AM, Tom Pearson wrote:
>>
>> 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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