[keycloak-user] Preserving IDs while Importing and Exporting

[Vlasta Ramik]

Hey Luis,

I believe you should try migration via Automatic Relational Database 
Migration [1]

[1] https://www.keycloak.org/docs/latest/upgrading/index.html#_migrate_db

On 4/3/19 7:40 PM, Luis Santos wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm currently working on a Keycloak migration/upgrade. We are trying to
> export (kc 3.x.x) all our realms and users and import them again into a new
> instance(kc 5.0.0).
>
> Unfortunately, the import process generates new uuids and our existing
> services break because they rely on the keycloak user ID.
>
> Did anyone come across a similar problem? If yes how did you solve it?
>
> I did some digging and I found a bug (
> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/KEYCLOAK-4336) referring to a similar
> problem but it was rejected without any details.
>
> I also find the code that overrides the UUID and I'm planning to change it.
> Is this approach wrong? I'm not familiar with the code base and maybe these
> changes will
> lead me to a dead end.
>
> https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/blob/a516a795a2147128b4c26bafaba95a8477614aab/services/src/main/java/org/keycloak/partialimport/UsersPartialImport.java#L113
>
> I would be grateful if someone could send in the right direction.
>
> Kind regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen
> Luis Santos
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