Keycloak retrieve custom attributes to KeycloakPrincipal

To add custom attributes you need to do three things:

  1. Add attributes to admin console
  2. Add claim mapping
  3. Access claims

The first one is explained pretty good here: https://www.keycloak.org/docs/latest/server_admin/index.html#user-attributes

Add claim mapping:

  1. Open the admin console of your realm.
  2. Go to Clients and open your client
  3. This only works for Settings > Access Type confidential or public (not bearer-only)
  4. Go to Mappers
  5. Create a mapping from your attribute to json
  6. Check “Add to ID token”

Access claims:

final Principal userPrincipal = httpRequest.getUserPrincipal();

if (userPrincipal instanceof KeycloakPrincipal) {

    KeycloakPrincipal<KeycloakSecurityContext> kp = (KeycloakPrincipal<KeycloakSecurityContext>) userPrincipal;
    IDToken token = kp.getKeycloakSecurityContext().getIdToken();

    Map<String, Object> otherClaims = token.getOtherClaims();

    if (otherClaims.containsKey("YOUR_CLAIM_KEY")) {
        yourClaim = String.valueOf(otherClaims.get("YOUR_CLAIM_KEY"));
    }
} else {
    throw new RuntimeException(...);
}

Hope this helps and fits your use case. I used this for a custom attribute I added with a custom theme.

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