Chapter 6. Service Provider Interfaces (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";
        }
}

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):

org.acme.provider.MyThemeSelectorProviderFactory

You can configure your provider through standalone.xml, standalone-ha.xml, or domain.xml. See the Server Installation and Configuration Guide for more details on where the standalone.xml, standalone-ha.xml, or domain.xml file lives.

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 EventListenerProvider {

    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 MyThemeSelectorProvider implements ThemeSelectorProvider, ServerInfoAwareProviderFactory {
    ...

    @Override
    public Map<String, String> getOperationalInfo() {
        Map<String, String> ret = new LinkedHashMap<>();
        ret.put("theme-name", "my-theme");
        return ret;
    }
}

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.

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>

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 pary 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);
        }
    }

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.