Okta Java Management SDK

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Getting started
Usage guide
Configuration reference
Building the SDK
Contributing

This repository contains the Okta management SDK for Java. This SDK can be used in your server-side code to interact with the Okta management API and:

Create and update users with the Users API
Add security factors to users with the Factors API
Manage groups with the Groups API
Manage applications with the Apps API
Much more!

We also publish these libraries for Java:

You can learn more on the Okta + Java page in our documentation.

Release status

This library uses semantic versioning and follows Okta's library version policy.

✔️ The current stable major version series is: 1.x

Version	Status
0.0.x	⚠️ Retired (migration guide)
1.x	✔️ Stable

The latest release can always be found on the releases page.

Need help?

If you run into problems using the SDK, you can

Ask questions on the Okta Developer Forums
Post issues here on GitHub (for code errors)

Getting started

To use this SDK you will need to include the following dependencies:

For Apache Maven:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.okta.sdk</groupId>
    <artifactId>okta-sdk-api</artifactId>
    <version>${okta.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.okta.sdk</groupId>
    <artifactId>okta-sdk-impl</artifactId>
    <version>${okta.version}</version>
    <scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.okta.sdk</groupId>
    <artifactId>okta-sdk-httpclient</artifactId>
    <version>${okta.version}</version>
    <scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>

For Gradle:

compile "com.okta.sdk:okta-sdk-api:${okta.version}"
runtime "com.okta.sdk:okta-sdk-impl:${okta.version}"
runtime "com.okta.sdk:okta-sdk-httpclient:${okta.version}"

SNAPSHOT Dependencies

Snapshots are deployed off of the 'master' branch to OSSRH and can be consumed using the following repository configured for Apache Maven or Gradle:

https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/

You'll also need:

An Okta account, called an organization (sign up for a free developer organization if you need one)
An API token

Construct a client instance by passing it your Okta domain name and API token:

Client client = Clients.builder()
    .setOrgUrl("{yourOktaDomain}")
    .setClientCredentials(new TokenClientCredentials("{apiToken}"))
    .build();

Hard-coding the Okta domain and API token works for quick tests, but for real projects you should use a more secure way of storing these values (such as environment variables). This library supports a few different configuration sources, covered in the configuration reference section.

Usage guide

These examples will help you understand how to use this library. You can also browse the full API reference documentation.

Once you initialize a Client, you can call methods to make requests to the Okta API.

Authenticate a User

This library should be used with the Okta management API. For authentication, we recommend using an OAuth 2.0 or OpenID Connect library such as Spring Security OAuth or Okta's Spring Boot integration. For Okta Authentication API you can use Authentication SDK.

Get a User

User user = client.getUser("a-user-id");

List all Users

UserList users = client.listUsers();

// stream
client.listUsers().stream()
    .forEach(user -> {
      // do something
    });

For more examples of handling collections see the paging section below.

Filter or search for Users

// search by email
UserList users = client.listUsers("jcoder@example.com", null, null, null, null);

// filter parameter
users = client.listUsers(null, "status eq \"ACTIVE\"", null, null, null);

Create a User

User user = UserBuilder.instance()
    .setEmail("joe.coder@example.com")
    .setFirstName("Joe")
    .setLastName("Code")
    .buildAndCreate(client);

Update a User

user.getProfile().setFirstName("new-first-name");
user.update();

Get and set custom attributes

Custom attributes must first be defined in the Okta profile editor. Then, you can work with custom attributes on a user:

user.getProfile().put("customPropertyKey", "a value");
user.getProfile().get("customPropertyKey");

Remove a User

user.deactivate();
user.delete();

List a User's Groups

GroupList groups = user.listGroups();

Create a Group

Group group = GroupBuilder.instance()
    .setName("a-group-name")
    .setDescription("Example Group")
    .buildAndCreate(client);

Add a User to a Group

user.addToGroup("groupId");

List a User's enrolled Factors

FactorList factors = user.listFactors();

Enroll a User in a new Factor

SmsFactor smsFactor = client.instantiate(SmsFactor.class);
smsFactor.getProfile().setPhoneNumber("555 867 5309");
user.addFactor(smsFactor);

Activate a Factor

Factor factor = user.getFactor("factorId");
VerifyFactorRequest verifyFactorRequest = client.instantiate(VerifyFactorRequest.class);
verifyFactorRequest.setPassCode("123456");
factor.activate(verifyFactorRequest);

Verify a Factor

Factor factor = user.getFactor("factorId");
VerifyFactorRequest verifyFactorRequest = client.instantiate(VerifyFactorRequest.class);
verifyFactorRequest.setPassCode("123456");
VerifyFactorResponse response = factor.verify(verifyFactorRequest);

List all Applications

ApplicationList applications = client.listApplications();

Get an Application

Application app = client.getApplication("appId");

Create a SWA Application

SwaApplication swaApp = client.instantiate(SwaApplication.class)
    .setSettings(client.instantiate(SwaApplicationSettings.class)
    .setApp(client.instantiate(SwaApplicationSettingsApplication.class)
      .setButtonField("btn-login")
      .setPasswordField("txtbox-password")
      .setUsernameField("txtbox-username")
      .setUrl("https://example.com/login.html")));

List System Logs

// page through all log events
LogEventList logEvents = client.getLogs();

// or use a filter (start date, end date, filter, or query, sort order) all options are nullable
logEvents = client.getLogs(null, null, null, "interestingURI.com", "ASCENDING");

Call other API endpoints

Not every API endpoint is represented by a method in this library. You can call any Okta management API endpoint using this generic syntax:

// Create an IdP, see: https://developer.okta.com/docs/api/resources/idps#add-identity-provider
ExtensibleResource resource = client.instantiate(ExtensibleResource.class);
ExtensibleResource protocolNode = client.instantiate(ExtensibleResource.class);
protocolNode.put("type", "OAUTH");
resource.put("protocol", protocolNode);
ExtensibleResource result = client.http()
    .setBody(resource)
    .post("/api/v1/idps", ExtensibleResource.class);

Paging

Paging is handled automatically when iterating over a any collection.

// get the list of users
UserList users = client.listUsers();

// get the first user in the collection
log.info("First user in collection: {}", users.iterator().next().getProfile().getEmail());

// or loop through all of them (paging is automatic)
for (User tmpUser : users) {
    log.info("User: {}", tmpUser.getProfile().getEmail());
}

// or via a stream
users.stream().forEach(tmpUser -> log.info("User: {}", tmpUser.getProfile().getEmail()));

Configuration reference

This library looks for configuration in the following sources:

An okta.yaml at the root of the applications classpath
An okta.yaml file in a .okta folder in the current user's home directory (~/.okta/okta.yaml or %userprofile%\.okta\okta.yaml)
Environment variables
Java System Properties
Configuration explicitly set programmatically (see the example in Getting started)

Higher numbers win. In other words, configuration passed via the constructor will override configuration found in environment variables, which will override configuration in okta.yaml (if any), and so on.

YAML configuration

The full YAML configuration looks like:

okta:
  client:
    connectionTimeout: 30 # seconds
    orgUrl: "https://{yourOktaDomain}" # i.e. https://dev-123456.oktapreview.com
    proxy:
      port: null
      host: null
      username: null
      password: null
    token: {apiToken}
    requestTimeout: 0 # seconds
    rateLimit:
      maxRetries: 4

Environment variables

Each one of the configuration values above can be turned into an environment variable name with the _ (underscore) character:

OKTA_CLIENT_CONNECTIONTIMEOUT
OKTA_CLIENT_TOKEN
and so on

System properties

Each one of of the configuration values written in 'dot' notation to be used as a Java system property:

okta.client.connectionTimeout
okta.client.token
and so on

Connection Retry / Rate Limiting

By default this SDK will retry requests that are return with a 503, 504, 429, or socket/connection exceptions. To disable this functionality set okta.client.requestTimeout and okta.client.rateLimit.maxRetries to 0.

Setting only one of the values to zero will disable that check. Meaning, by default, four retry attempts will be made. If you set okta.client.requestTimeout to 45 seconds and okta.client.rateLimit.maxRetries to 0. This SDK will continue to retry indefinitely for 45 seconds. If both values are non zero, this SDK will attempt to retry until either of the conditions are met (not both).

Caching

By default, a simple production-grade in-memory CacheManager will be enabled when the Client instance is created. This CacheManager implementation has the following characteristics:

It assumes a default time-to-live and time-to-idle of 1 hour for all cache entries.
It auto-sizes itself based on your application's memory usage. It will not cause OutOfMemoryExceptions.

The default cache manager is not suitable for an application deployed across multiple JVMs.

This is because the default implementation is 100% in-memory (in-process) in the current JVM. If more than one JVM is deployed with the same application codebase - for example, a web application deployed on multiple identical hosts for scaling or high availability - each JVM would have it's own in-memory cache.

As a result, if your application that uses an Okta Client instance is deployed across multiple JVMs, you SHOULD ensure that the Client is configured with a CacheManager implementation that uses coherent and clustered/distributed memory.

See the ClientBuilder Javadoc for more details on caching.

Caching for applications deployed on a single JVM

If your application is deployed on a single JVM and you still want to use the default CacheManager implementation, but the default cache configuration does not meet your needs, you can specify a different configuration. For example:

Caches.newCacheManager()
     .withDefaultTimeToLive(300, TimeUnit.SECONDS) // default
     .withDefaultTimeToIdle(300, TimeUnit.SECONDS) //general default
     .withCache(forResource(User.class) //User-specific cache settings
         .withTimeToLive(1, TimeUnit.HOURS)
         .withTimeToIdle(30, TimeUnit.MINUTES))
     .withCache(forResource(Group.class) //Group-specific cache settings
         .withTimeToLive(2, TimeUnit.HOURS))
     //... etc ...
     .build();

Disable Caching

While production applications will usually enable a working CacheManager as described above, you might wish to disable caching entirely. You can do this by configuring a disabled CacheManager instance. For example:

Client client = Clients.builder()
    .setCacheManager(Caches.newDisabledCacheManager())
    .build();

Building the SDK

In most cases, you won't need to build the SDK from source. If you want to build it yourself, take a look at the build instructions wiki (though just cloning the repo and running mvn install should get you going).

Contributing

We're happy to accept contributions and PRs! Please see the contribution guide to understand how to structure a contribution.

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