Keycloak admin client

Using the Keycloak admin client to access the Keycloak Admin REST API

The Keycloak admin client is a Java library that facilitates the access and usage of the Keycloak Admin REST API. The library requires Java 11 or higher at runtime (RESTEasy dependency enforces this requirement). To use it from your application add a dependency on the keycloak-admin-client library. For example using Maven:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.keycloak</groupId>
    <artifactId>keycloak-admin-client</artifactId>
    <version>999.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
</dependency>

The following example shows how to use the Java client library to get the details of the master realm:

import org.keycloak.admin.client.Keycloak;
import org.keycloak.representations.idm.RealmRepresentation;
...

Keycloak keycloak = Keycloak.getInstance(
    "http://localhost:8080",
    "master",
    "admin",
    "password",
    "admin-cli");
RealmRepresentation realm = keycloak.realm("master").toRepresentation();

Complete Javadoc for the admin client is available at API Documentation.

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