Thanks Jim!

An additional property makes sense for liveTests as well.
Direct use of Azure AD GraphApi looks a bit hard to me, so let's make
jclouds accept an extra parameter that will allow at least to specify an
already existing objectID.
wdyt?

On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 10:33 AM, Ignasi Barrera <n...@apache.org> wrote:

> Thanks Jim!
>
> I think it makes sense for the live tests to get the value configured
> as a property.
>
> If someone wants to directly use the KeyVault API, I think it makes
> sense to have the objectId as a required parameter (as it is now). I
> don't see an immediate need to auto-discover it or to have it
> configured per-context in advance, so I'd say a property just for the
> tests is fine.
>
>
> I.
>
> On 16 October 2017 at 20:44, Jim Spring <jmspr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Andrea -
> >
> > A PR is present plumbing in the ObjectID.  I’ll be looking at fleshing
> out
> > the tests more today.
> >
> > -jim
> >
> >
> > On October 16, 2017 at 9:48:39 AM, Jim Spring (jmspr...@gmail.com)
> wrote:
> >
> > Andrea, Ignasi -
> >
> > I’ve managed to figure out the authentication issue Andrea was running
> into
> > with his KeyVault implementation keeping the live tests from working.  I
> > don’t think a PR is needed, but I am cleaning up the code to just double
> > check.
> >
> > Basically, the issue is as follows:
> >
> > 1.  KeyVault relies upon Azure AD for access control (this is the Object
> ID
> > passed in)
> > 2.  A service principal (or other Azure AD object) typically has two IDs
> > associated with it:
> > - The name or AppID
> > - An ObjectID
> >
> > For Azure tests, currently, one must specify the Service Principal
> Name/App
> > ID as well as the secret.  For the creation of the KeyVault in the test,
> > one needs the “ObjectID” of the Service Principal used to login.
> >
> > There are two ways to fix this:
> >
> > 1.  Implement the Azure AD Graph API in order to look the information up
> > (note, the SP may not have access to do so)
> > 2.  Add another parameter to be specified for Vault Live tests, say
> > something like 'test.azurecompute-arm.identity.objectid’
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > I’m going through my code changes now and will reach out for anything
> > required there to Andrea.
> >
> > -jim
>

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