Dynamic roles definition by a custom bind to RolesStore

[s4nch3z]

Currently there is no out of the box possibility to define roles dynamically. This feature will be in particular useful for custom user authentication plugins.

Example:

public void onModule(AuthorizationModule module) {
  module.registerRoleStore(CustomRoleStore.class);
}

[jaymode]

@s4nch3z sorry for the delay in response, could you provide some more details about your use case for dynamically defined roles?

[Hronom]

+1 For this feature, we need to add roles on fly through REST. So custom realm must somehow replace default RolesStore...

Please add this feature.

[jaymode]

@Hronom we're adding APIs that allow role management and these will be stored within the cluster. With this API, do you still need the ability to have a custom realm define roles?

[Hronom]

@jaymode Actually we run app that work with Elasticsearch through REST API.
Our app needs to create new roles for users in Elasticsearch cluster on fly through REST API.

Is new APIs gives this ability?

[jaymode]

You will be able to add new roles via this API (both REST and Java API). As far as timing, it should be coming soon

[Hronom]

Sorry, for offtopic and perseverance=) "coming soon" is this weeks or months? Is there any more concrete estimates?

At current moment we develop background part on our project, but after week, we start implement main part that needs this feature.