Chapter 6. Service Provider Interfaces (SPI) Red Hat build of Keycloak is designed to cover most use-cases without requiring custom code, but we also want it to be customizable. To achieve this Red Hat build of Keycloak has a number of Service Provider Interfaces (SPI) for which you can implement your own providers. 6.1. Implementing an SPI To implement an SPI you need to implement its ProviderFactory and Provider interfaces. You also need to create a service configuration file. For example, to implement the Theme Selector SPI you need to implement ThemeSelectorProviderFactory and ThemeSelectorProvider and also provide the file META-INF/services/org.keycloak.theme.ThemeSelectorProviderFactory . Example ThemeSelectorProviderFactory: package org.acme.provider; import ... public class MyThemeSelectorProviderFactory implements ThemeSelectorProviderFactory { @Override public ThemeSelectorProvider create(KeycloakSession session) { return new MyThemeSelectorProvider(session); } @Override public void init(Config.Scope config) { } @Override public void postInit(KeycloakSessionFactory factory) { } @Override public void close() { } @Override public String getId() { return "myThemeSelector"; } } It is recommended that your provider factory implementation returns unique id by method getId() . However there can be some exceptions to this rule as mentioned below in the Overriding providers section. Note Red Hat build of Keycloak creates a single instance of provider factories which makes it possible to store state for multiple requests. Provider instances are created by calling create on the factory for each request so these should be light-weight object. Example ThemeSelectorProvider: package org.acme.provider; import ... public class MyThemeSelectorProvider implements ThemeSelectorProvider { public MyThemeSelectorProvider(KeycloakSession session) { } @Override public String getThemeName(Theme.Type type) { return "my-theme"; } @Override public void close() { } } Example service configuration file ( META-INF/services/org.keycloak.theme.ThemeSelectorProviderFactory ): To configure your provider, see the Configuring Providers chapter. For example, to configure a provider you can set options as follows: bin/kc.[sh|bat] --spi-theme-selector-my-theme-selector-enabled=true --spi-theme-selector-my-theme-selector-theme=my-theme Then you can retrieve the config in the ProviderFactory init method: public void init(Config.Scope config) { String themeName = config.get("theme"); } Your provider can also look up other providers if needed. For example: public class MyThemeSelectorProvider implements ThemeSelectorProvider { private KeycloakSession session; public MyThemeSelectorProvider(KeycloakSession session) { this.session = session; } @Override public String getThemeName(Theme.Type type) { return session.getContext().getRealm().getLoginTheme(); } } 6.1.1. Override built-in providers As mentioned above, it is recommended that your ProviderFactory implementations use unique ID. However at the same time, it can be useful to override one of the Red Hat build of Keycloak built-in providers. The recommended way for this is still ProviderFactory implementation with unique ID and then for instance set the default provider as specified in the Configuring Providers chapter. On the other hand, this may not be always possible. For instance when you need some customizations to default OpenID Connect protocol behaviour and you want to override default Red Hat build of Keycloak implementation of OIDCLoginProtocolFactory you need to preserve same providerId. As for example admin console, OIDC protocol well-known endpoint and various other things rely on the ID of the protocol factory being openid-connect . For this case, it is highly recommended to implement method order() of your custom implementation and make sure that it has higher order than the built-in implementation. public class CustomOIDCLoginProtocolFactory extends OIDCLoginProtocolFactory { // Some customizations here @Override public int order() { return 1; } } In case of multiple implementations with same provider ID, only the one with highest order will be used by Red Hat build of Keycloak runtime. 6.1.2. Show info from your SPI implementation in the Admin Console Sometimes it is useful to show additional info about your Provider to a Red Hat build of Keycloak administrator. You can show provider build time information (for example, version of custom provider currently installed), current configuration of the provider (e.g. url of remote system your provider talks to) or some operational info (average time of response from remote system your provider talks to). Red Hat build of Keycloak Admin Console provides Server Info page to show this kind of information. To show info from your provider it is enough to implement org.keycloak.provider.ServerInfoAwareProviderFactory interface in your ProviderFactory . Example implementation for MyThemeSelectorProviderFactory from example: package org.acme.provider; import ... public class MyThemeSelectorProviderFactory implements ThemeSelectorProviderFactory, ServerInfoAwareProviderFactory { ... @Override public Map<String, String> getOperationalInfo() { Map<String, String> ret = new LinkedHashMap<>(); ret.put("theme-name", "my-theme"); return ret; } } 6.2. Use available providers In your provider implementation, you can use other providers available in Red Hat build of Keycloak. The existing providers can be typically retrieved with the usage of the KeycloakSession , which is available to your provider as described in the section Implementing an SPI . Red Hat build of Keycloak has two provider types: Single-implementation provider types - There can be only a single active implementation of the particular provider type in Red Hat build of Keycloak runtime. For example HostnameProvider specifies the hostname to be used by Red Hat build of Keycloak and that is shared for the whole Red Hat build of Keycloak server. Hence there can be only single implementation of this provider active for the Red Hat build of Keycloak server. If there are multiple provider implementations available to the server runtime, one of them needs to be specified as the default one. For example such as: bin/kc.[sh|bat] build --spi-hostname-provider=default The value default used as the value of default-provider must match the ID returned by the ProviderFactory.getId() of the particular provider factory implementation. In the code, you can obtain the provider such as keycloakSession.getProvider(HostnameProvider.class) Multiple implementation provider types - Those are provider types, that allow multiple implementations available and working together in the Red Hat build of Keycloak runtime. For example EventListener provider allows to have multiple implementations available and registered, which means that particular event can be sent to all the listeners (jboss-logging, sysout etc). In the code, you can obtain a specified instance of the provider for example such as session.getProvider(EventListener.class, "jboss-logging") . You need to specify provider_id of the provider as the second argument as there can be multiple instances of this provider type as described above. The provider ID must match the ID returned by the ProviderFactory.getId() of the particular provider factory implementation. Some provider types can be retrieved with the usage of ComponentModel as the second argument and some (for example Authenticator ) even need to be retrieved with the usage of KeycloakSessionFactory . It is not recommended to implement your own providers this way as it may be deprecated in the future. 6.3. Registering provider implementations Providers are registered with the server by simply copying them to the providers directory. If your provider needs additional dependencies not already provided by Keycloak copy these to the providers directory. After registering new providers or dependencies Keycloak needs to be re-built with the kc.[sh|bat] build command. 6.3.1. Disabling a provider You can disable a provider by setting the enabled attribute for the provider to false. For example to disable the Infinispan user cache provider use: bin/kc.[sh|bat] build --spi-user-cache-infinispan-enabled=false 6.4. JavaScript providers Red Hat build of Keycloak has the ability to execute scripts during runtime in order to allow administrators to customize specific functionalities: Authenticator JavaScript Policy OpenID Connect Protocol Mapper SAML Protocol Mapper 6.4.1. Authenticator Authentication scripts must provide at least one of the following functions: authenticate(..) , which is called from Authenticator#authenticate(AuthenticationFlowContext) action(..) , which is called from Authenticator#action(AuthenticationFlowContext) Custom Authenticator should at least provide the authenticate(..) function. You can use the javax.script.Bindings script within the code. script the ScriptModel to access script metadata realm the RealmModel user the current UserModel . Note that user is available when your script authenticator is configured in the authentication flow in a way that is triggered after another authenticator succeeded in establishing user identity and set the user into the authentication session. session the active KeycloakSession authenticationSession the current AuthenticationSessionModel httpRequest the current org.jboss.resteasy.spi.HttpRequest LOG a org.jboss.logging.Logger scoped to ScriptBasedAuthenticator Note You can extract additional context information from the context argument passed to the authenticate(context) action(context) function. AuthenticationFlowError = Java.type("org.keycloak.authentication.AuthenticationFlowError"); function authenticate(context) { LOG.info(script.name + " --> trace auth for: " + user.username); if ( user.username === "tester" && user.getAttribute("someAttribute") && user.getAttribute("someAttribute").contains("someValue")) { context.failure(AuthenticationFlowError.INVALID_USER); return; } context.success(); } 6.4.1.1. Where to add script authenticator A possible use of script authenticator is to do some checks at the end of the authentication. Note that if you want your script authenticator to be always triggered (even for instance during SSO re-authentication with the identity cookie), you may need to add it as REQUIRED at the end of the authentication flow and encapsulate the existing authenticators into a separate REQUIRED authentication subflow. This need is because the REQUIRED and ALTERNATIVE executions should not be at the same level. For example, the authentication flow configuration should appear as follows: 6.4.2. Create a JAR with the scripts to deploy Note JAR files are regular ZIP files with a .jar extension. In order to make your scripts available to Red Hat build of Keycloak you need to deploy them to the server. For that, you should create a JAR file with the following structure: The META-INF/keycloak-scripts.json is a file descriptor that provides metadata information about the scripts you want to deploy. It is a JSON file with the following structure: { "authenticators": [ { "name": "My Authenticator", "fileName": "my-script-authenticator.js", "description": "My Authenticator from a JS file" } ], "policies": [ { "name": "My Policy", "fileName": "my-script-policy.js", "description": "My Policy from a JS file" } ], "mappers": [ { "name": "My Mapper", "fileName": "my-script-mapper.js", "description": "My Mapper from a JS file" } ], "saml-mappers": [ { "name": "My Mapper", "fileName": "my-script-mapper.js", "description": "My Mapper from a JS file" } ] } This file should reference the different types of script providers that you want to deploy: authenticators For OpenID Connect Script Authenticators. You can have one or multiple authenticators in the same JAR file policies For JavaScript Policies when using Red Hat build of Keycloak Authorization Services. You can have one or multiple policies in the same JAR file mappers For OpenID Connect Script Protocol Mappers. You can have one or multiple mappers in the same JAR file saml-mappers For SAML Script Protocol Mappers. You can have one or multiple mappers in the same JAR file For each script file in your JAR file, you need a corresponding entry in META-INF/keycloak-scripts.json that maps your scripts files to a specific provider type. For that you should provide the following properties for each entry: name A friendly name that will be used to show the scripts through the Red Hat build of Keycloak Administration Console. If not provided, the name of the script file will be used instead description An optional text that better describes the intend of the script file fileName The name of the script file. This property is mandatory and should map to a file within the JAR. 6.4.3. Deploy the script JAR Once you have a JAR file with a descriptor and the scripts you want to deploy, you just need to copy the JAR to the Red Hat build of Keycloak providers/ directory, then run bin/kc.[sh|bat] build . 6.5. Available SPIs If you want to see list of all available SPIs at runtime, you can check Server Info page in Admin Console as described in Admin Console section.

Commands:
package org.acme.provider; import public class MyThemeSelectorProviderFactory implements ThemeSelectorProviderFactory { @Override public ThemeSelectorProvider create(KeycloakSession session) { return new MyThemeSelectorProvider(session); } @Override public void init(Config.Scope config) { } @Override public void postInit(KeycloakSessionFactory factory) { } @Override public void close() { } @Override public String getId() { return "myThemeSelector"; } }
package org.acme.provider; import public class MyThemeSelectorProvider implements ThemeSelectorProvider { public MyThemeSelectorProvider(KeycloakSession session) { } @Override public String getThemeName(Theme.Type type) { return "my-theme"; } @Override public void close() { } }
org.acme.provider.MyThemeSelectorProviderFactory
bin/kc.[sh|bat] --spi-theme-selector-my-theme-selector-enabled=true --spi-theme-selector-my-theme-selector-theme=my-theme
public void init(Config.Scope config) { String themeName = config.get("theme"); }
public class MyThemeSelectorProvider implements ThemeSelectorProvider { private KeycloakSession session; public MyThemeSelectorProvider(KeycloakSession session) { this.session = session; } @Override public String getThemeName(Theme.Type type) { return session.getContext().getRealm().getLoginTheme(); } }
public class CustomOIDCLoginProtocolFactory extends OIDCLoginProtocolFactory { // Some customizations here @Override public int order() { return 1; } }
package org.acme.provider; import public class MyThemeSelectorProviderFactory implements ThemeSelectorProviderFactory, ServerInfoAwareProviderFactory { @Override public Map<String, String> getOperationalInfo() { Map<String, String> ret = new LinkedHashMap<>(); ret.put("theme-name", "my-theme"); return ret; } }
bin/kc.[sh|bat] build --spi-hostname-provider=default
bin/kc.[sh|bat] build --spi-user-cache-infinispan-enabled=false
AuthenticationFlowError = Java.type("org.keycloak.authentication.AuthenticationFlowError"); function authenticate(context) { LOG.info(script.name + " --> trace auth for: " + user.username); if ( user.username === "tester" && user.getAttribute("someAttribute") && user.getAttribute("someAttribute").contains("someValue")) { context.failure(AuthenticationFlowError.INVALID_USER); return; } context.success(); }
- User-authentication-subflow REQUIRED -- Cookie ALTERNATIVE -- Identity-provider-redirect ALTERNATIVE - Your-Script-Authenticator REQUIRED
META-INF/keycloak-scripts.json my-script-authenticator.js my-script-policy.js my-script-mapper.js
{ "authenticators": [ { "name": "My Authenticator", "fileName": "my-script-authenticator.js", "description": "My Authenticator from a JS file" } ], "policies": [ { "name": "My Policy", "fileName": "my-script-policy.js", "description": "My Policy from a JS file" } ], "mappers": [ { "name": "My Mapper", "fileName": "my-script-mapper.js", "description": "My Mapper from a JS file" } ], "saml-mappers": [ { "name": "My Mapper", "fileName": "my-script-mapper.js", "description": "My Mapper from a JS file" } ] }