Pain point · Documentation · Blocks work
Keycloak SPIs poorly or not documented, forcing code reading
2 source threads · first seen 2020-04 · last seen 2021-01
Summary
Customizing Keycloak requires reading code and knowing Java EE because many SPIs are poorly documented or undocumented, even for simple extras like profile fields.
- Affects
- Developers extending Keycloak
- Workaround
- Read the source code.
Evidence
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“Implementing the user federation SPI for Keycloak is actually pretty tricky”
“are poorly documented at best, or totally undocumented at worst”