Authentication of REST services not working with jBPM (KIE Server and Business Central) and Keycloak

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I am studying jBPM (KIE Server and Business Central) and Keycloak. In isolation, I managed to run all this software with success. However, when I try to integrate between them, the authentication of users on the website works (Keycloak login page to access the Business Central site), however it seems that the authentication of the REST services call, both from the KIE Server and from the Business Central, stops working (unauthorized) and the KIE Server is unable to synchronize with its Controller (Business Central).

Below are more details on the subject.

I have been searching for a few days for a solution to the problem but without success.

Although I have already consulted this excellent site, this is my first question and I do not have much reference on which file is recommended to attach to the question. If you see a specific file, please sign that I will attach it.

I appreciate any help.

Notes (useful information) about the environment and problems encountered:

  • Only 1 Wildfly 20.0.1 environment (server) hosting KIE Server 7.43.1.Final, Business Central 7.43.1.Final and Keycloak 11.0.2, with the Keycloak adapter installed, on Windows 10.

  • In Keycloak, Realm was created with the name VHLLEmpresaRealm and 2 clients (applications):

  1. VHLLEmpresaKIEServer: with public access.
  2. VHLLEmpresaBusinessCentral: with confidential access.

  • In the Keycloak, the user kieserver with password kieserver1! was created and assigned to various roles (both Realm and Clients), among them: admin, rest-all, kie-server, kiemgmt and user.

  • Authentication with kieserver User and your Password on the Business Central website working properly integrated with Keycloak (Keycloak login page). Authentication with Google (social login) working properly.

  • Business Central configured to show and manage the users registered in the Keycloak.

  • Problems observed:

  1. When starting the Wildfly server, the KIE Server is unable to synchronize with the Controller Business Central (see the Startup Log - Doc 06). The attempt below is repeated at startup several times without success, followed by NullPointerException with lines copied below:

17:13:30,057 INFO [org.kie.server.controller.websocket.client.WebSocketKieServerControllerImpl] (KieServer-ControllerConnect) Kie Server points to non Web Socket controller 'http://localhost:8080/business-central/rest/controller', using default REST mechanism 17:13:30,214 ERROR [org.keycloak.services.error.KeycloakErrorHandler] (default task-6) Uncaught server error: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.keycloak.storage.StorageId.isLocalStorage(StorageId.java:77) at org.keycloak.credential.UserCredentialStoreManager.getStoreForUser(UserCredentialStoreManager.java:54) ... 17:13:30,214 WARN [org.kie.server.services.impl.controller.DefaultRestControllerImpl] (KieServer-ControllerConnect) Exception encountered while syncing with controller at http://localhost:8080/business-central/rest/controller/server/wildfly-kieserver error Error while sending PUT request to http://localhost:8080/business-central/rest/controller/server/wildfly-kieserver response code 401

Link to complete file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kr47ap9frsCQB8oyQE2dEm2gfl7__s0G/view?usp=sharing

  1. On the Business Central website, on the Deployments page (which shows the Servers too), the KIE Server server does not appear as available (see Doc 07).

Link to complete file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lKiCZdOp7yRvHibfgJ8ZOE_dZIAnkE6U/view?usp=sharing

  1. In the CURL command to access the Business Central REST services, even if the kieserver user and password are passed, the answer is NOT authorized (see Doc 08).

COMMAND: curl -X GET http://kieserver:kieserver1!@localhost:8080/business-central/rest/repositories -v RESPONSE: ErrorUnauthorized

Link to complete file:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1V_CH_hiTkhLh-AtgRvP0YkZ3afwBc4tZ/view?usp=sharing

Other Files:

Wildfly Settings - STANDALONE-FULL.XML https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f0xvRDPiId1RymZkMGIUaIMB_EuGpbud/view?usp=sharing

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1 Answers

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I'm not sure if this is the correct way to solve the problem, but after continuing my studies and research for a few more days, using the CURL command to call a Business Central service (below), I obtained the Access Token and through the website jwt.io, I noticed in the content of this Token that the audience (aud) field was not filled in with the Keycloak Client ID that requested the Token.

curl -d "grant_type=password" -d "client_id=VHLLEmpresaBusinessCentral" -d "client_secret=020c8841-50ee-437e-af16-XXXXXXXX" -d "username=kieserver" -d "password=kieserverXXXXX" -d "scope=VHLLEmpresaEscopo" http://localhost:8180/auth/realms/VHLLEmpresaRealm/protocol/openid-connect/token

So, I created a Client Scope, I created a Mapper for the Audience to add the Client's own ID and associated this Client Scope to the corresponding Client.

The second change that was necessary was to override the Direct Grant Flow with the "direct grant" value for each Client involved.

With the two changes above, the synchronization between KIE Server and Business Central has returned to work.