Chapter 6. Service Provider Interfaces (SPI) Red Hat Single Sign-On is designed to cover most use-cases without requiring custom code, but we also want it to be customizable. To achieve this Red Hat Single Sign-On 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"; } } Note 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 ): You can configure your provider through standalone.xml , standalone-ha.xml , or domain.xml . For example by adding the following to standalone.xml : <spi name="themeSelector"> <provider name="myThemeSelector" enabled="true"> <properties> <property name="theme" value="my-theme"/> </properties> </provider> </spi> 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 lookup 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. Show info from your SPI implementation in admin console Sometimes it is useful to show additional info about your Provider to a Red Hat Single Sign-On administrator. You can show provider build time information (eg. version of custom provider currently installed), current configuration of the provider (eg. 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 Single Sign-On 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. Registering provider implementations There are two ways to register provider implementations. In most cases the simplest way is to use the Red Hat Single Sign-On deployer approach as this handles a number of dependencies automatically for you. It also supports hot deployment as well as re-deployment. The alternative approach is to deploy as a module. If you are creating a custom SPI you will need to deploy it as a module, otherwise we recommend using the Red Hat Single Sign-On deployer approach. 6.2.1. Using the Red Hat Single Sign-On Deployer If you copy your provider jar to the Red Hat Single Sign-On standalone/deployments/ directory, your provider will automatically be deployed. Hot deployment works too. Additionally, your provider jar works similarly to other components deployed in a JBoss EAP environment in that they can use facilities like the jboss-deployment-structure.xml file. This file allows you to set up dependencies on other components and load third-party jars and modules. Provider jars can also be contained within other deployable units like EARs and WARs. Deploying with a EAR actually makes it really easy to use third party jars as you can just put these libraries in the EAR's lib/ directory. 6.2.2. Register a provider using Modules To register a provider using Modules first create a module. To do this you can either use the jboss-cli script or manually create a folder inside KEYCLOAK_HOME/modules and add your jar and a module.xml . For example to add the event listener sysout example provider using the jboss-cli script execute: Or to manually create it start by creating the folder KEYCLOAK_HOME/modules/org/acme/provider/main . Then copy provider.jar to this folder and create module.xml with the following content: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <module xmlns="urn:jboss:module:1.3" name="org.acme.provider"> <resources> <resource-root path="provider.jar"/> </resources> <dependencies> <module name="org.keycloak.keycloak-core"/> <module name="org.keycloak.keycloak-server-spi"/> </dependencies> </module> Once you've created the module you need to register this module with Red Hat Single Sign-On. This is done by editing the keycloak-server subsystem section of standalone.xml , standalone-ha.xml , or domain.xml , and adding it to the providers: <subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:keycloak-server:1.1"> <web-context>auth</web-context> <providers> <provider>module:org.keycloak.examples.event-sysout</provider> </providers> ... 6.2.3. Disabling a provider You can disable a provider by setting the enabled attribute for the provider to false in standalone.xml , standalone-ha.xml , or domain.xml . For example to disable the Infinispan user cache provider add: <spi name="userCache"> <provider name="infinispan" enabled="false"/> </spi> 6.3. Leveraging Java EE The service providers can be packaged within any Java EE component so long as you set up the META-INF/services file correctly to point to your providers. For example, if your provider needs to use third party libraries, you can package up your provider within an ear and store these third party libraries in the ear's lib/ directory. Also note that provider jars can make use of the jboss-deployment-structure.xml file that EJBs, WARS, and EARs can use in a JBoss EAP environment. See the JBoss EAP documentation for more details on this file. It allows you to pull in external dependencies among other fine grain actions. ProviderFactory implementations are required to be plain java objects. But, we also currently support implementing provider classes as Stateful EJBs. This is how you would do it: @Stateful @Local(EjbExampleUserStorageProvider.class) public class EjbExampleUserStorageProvider implements UserStorageProvider, UserLookupProvider, UserRegistrationProvider, UserQueryProvider, CredentialInputUpdater, CredentialInputValidator, OnUserCache { @PersistenceContext protected EntityManager em; protected ComponentModel model; protected KeycloakSession session; public void setModel(ComponentModel model) { this.model = model; } public void setSession(KeycloakSession session) { this.session = session; } @Remove @Override public void close() { } ... } You have to define the @Local annotation and specify your provider class there. If you don't do this, EJB will not proxy the provider instance correctly and your provider won't work. You must put the @Remove annotation on the close() method of your provider. If you don't, the stateful bean will never be cleaned up and you may eventually see error messages. Implementations of ProviderFactory are required to be plain java objects. Your factory class would perform a JNDI lookup of the Stateful EJB in its create() method. public class EjbExampleUserStorageProviderFactory implements UserStorageProviderFactory<EjbExampleUserStorageProvider> { @Override public EjbExampleUserStorageProvider create(KeycloakSession session, ComponentModel model) { try { InitialContext ctx = new InitialContext(); EjbExampleUserStorageProvider provider = (EjbExampleUserStorageProvider)ctx.lookup( "java:global/user-storage-jpa-example/" + EjbExampleUserStorageProvider.class.getSimpleName()); provider.setModel(model); provider.setSession(session); return provider; } catch (Exception e) { throw new RuntimeException(e); } } 6.4. JavaScript Providers Red Hat Single Sign-On has the ability to execute scripts during runtime in order to allow administrators to customize specific functionalities: Authenticator JavaScript Policy OpenID Connect 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 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(); } 6.4.2. 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 Single Sign-On 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" } ] } 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 Single Sign-On 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 For each script file in your JAR file you must have 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 Single Sign-On 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 to the Red Hat Single Sign-On standalone/deployments/ directory. 6.4.4. Using Red Hat Single Sign-On Administration Console to upload scripts Note Ability to upload scripts through the admin console is deprecated and will be removed in a future version of Red Hat Single Sign-On Administrators cannot upload scripts to the server. This behavior prevents potential harm to the system in case malicious scripts are accidentally executed. Administrators should always deploy scripts directly to the server using a JAR file to prevent attacks when you run scripts at runtime. Ability to upload scripts can be explicitly enabled. This should be used with great care and plans should be created to deploy all scripts directly to the server as soon as possible. For more details about how to enable the upload_scripts feature. Please, take a look at the Profiles . 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
<spi name="themeSelector"> <provider name="myThemeSelector" enabled="true"> <properties> <property name="theme" value="my-theme"/> </properties> </provider> </spi>
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(); } }
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; } }
KEYCLOAK_HOME/bin/jboss-cli.sh --command="module add --name=org.acme.provider --resources=target/provider.jar --dependencies=org.keycloak.keycloak-core,org.keycloak.keycloak-server-spi"
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <module xmlns="urn:jboss:module:1.3" name="org.acme.provider"> <resources> <resource-root path="provider.jar"/> </resources> <dependencies> <module name="org.keycloak.keycloak-core"/> <module name="org.keycloak.keycloak-server-spi"/> </dependencies> </module>
<subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:keycloak-server:1.1"> <web-context>auth</web-context> <providers> <provider>module:org.keycloak.examples.event-sysout</provider> </providers>
<spi name="userCache"> <provider name="infinispan" enabled="false"/> </spi>
@Stateful @Local(EjbExampleUserStorageProvider.class) public class EjbExampleUserStorageProvider implements UserStorageProvider, UserLookupProvider, UserRegistrationProvider, UserQueryProvider, CredentialInputUpdater, CredentialInputValidator, OnUserCache { @PersistenceContext protected EntityManager em; protected ComponentModel model; protected KeycloakSession session; public void setModel(ComponentModel model) { this.model = model; } public void setSession(KeycloakSession session) { this.session = session; } @Remove @Override public void close() { } }
public class EjbExampleUserStorageProviderFactory implements UserStorageProviderFactory<EjbExampleUserStorageProvider> { @Override public EjbExampleUserStorageProvider create(KeycloakSession session, ComponentModel model) { try { InitialContext ctx = new InitialContext(); EjbExampleUserStorageProvider provider = (EjbExampleUserStorageProvider)ctx.lookup( "java:global/user-storage-jpa-example/" + EjbExampleUserStorageProvider.class.getSimpleName()); provider.setModel(model); provider.setSession(session); return provider; } catch (Exception e) { throw new RuntimeException(e); } }
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(); }
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" } ] }