> On 6. mai 2016, at 02.39, Christopher L. Cousins <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hello Bobby,
> 
> For this type of a connector to be useful to me, I would still need to be 
> able to then enrich the JWTs with additional claims.  oidc.Identity as 
> returned by Identity() today does not allow/encourage this.  Is there another 
> extension point (real or planned) for connectors that would allow me to pass 
> along additional information?
> 
> I agree with the limitedness of oidc.Identity. A little background here: 
> originally dex was an internal project and in comprised what is now dex, and 
> what is now go-oidc in one project. When we decided to opensource it, we 
> split it up into dex, the IdP, and go-oidc, the OIDC library. Some stuff made 
> it into go-oidc which, in retrospect, probably is dex-specific.
> 
> Identity I think is one of those things. off the top of my head: I would do 
> something like the following: remove dex's dependency on the Identity type, 
> and create one within dex. This might be a big change in terms of LOC, but 
> fairly mechanical (I think). Then add something like "other claims" which 
> could just be a Claims object. Then connectors could populate it with 
> whatever they want.
> 
> Rather than creating a type specific to dex, is there any reason to not 
> modify the existing oidc.Identity type to support additional claims?  For my 
> specific needs, the changes I'm interested in for the type are not really dex 
> specific, but are specific to oidc.


I tend to agree. Have a look at 
http://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-core-1_0.html#StandardClaims 
<http://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-core-1_0.html#StandardClaims>

I’m in the process of preparing a patch to extend the go-oidc Identity with all 
the standard claims as well as a way to handle additional claims.

--
Frode Nordahl



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