[keycloak-user] How to store and search for (standardized?) user attributes?

Guus der Kinderen guus.der.kinderen at gmail.com
Mon May 29 08:37:07 EDT 2017


Hi Marko,

Thanks for the feedback. How do I obtain a RealmAuth reference to work
with, when extending the REST api?

Regards,

  Guus

On 15 May 2017 at 16:38, Marko Strukelj <mstrukel at redhat.com> wrote:

> There is a method for this:
>     https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/blob/3.1.0.Final/
> server-spi/src/main/java/org/keycloak/storage/user/
> UserQueryProvider.java#L134-L148
>
> But there is no Admin REST API through which it would be exposed.
>
> You can add your custom REST endpoint and implement your custom search
> call there.
> See:
>     https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/tree/3.1.0.Final/
> examples/providers/rest for example.
>
> You'd have to make sure to protect your endpoint so its only accessible to
> admin client. See how /users endpoint does this:
>     https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/blob/3.1.0.Final/
> services/src/main/java/org/keycloak/services/resources/
> admin/UsersResource.java#L675
>
>
>
> On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 3:44 PM, Guus der Kinderen <
> guus.der.kinderen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> *gently moves question back to the top of the mailinglist*
>>
>> On 2 May 2017 at 13:54, Guus der Kinderen <guus.der.kinderen at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi!
>> >
>> > We'd like to be able to store somewhat standard user attributes that
>> > complete the email, first and last name values that Keycloak 'natively'
>> > stores. Think of things like a date of birth, home/work address, phone
>> > number, etc. Additionally, we'd like to be able to find users based on a
>> > search query. We'd like to be able to answer questions like: "how many
>> > users live in London?"
>> >
>> > So far, we've found the user attributes, where we could store this
>> > information. That is a very generic solution though. Are there
>> standardized
>> > attribute names, profiles, that we can use?
>> >
>> > A further challenge is that we'd like to be able to query the user base,
>> > based on attributes. We'd like to find people by address, by date of
>> birth,
>> > etc. The REST API does have search functionality, but it doesn't look
>> like
>> > you can find users by attribute value.
>> >
>> > Can anyone recommend a course of action here?
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> >    Guus
>> >
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