Support named entities

[sedough]

Support named entities

Problem

Entities include a textual description, but the names themselves are required to be UUIDs. When explaining to customers how to perform the client credentials grant, these UUIDs are confusing because they are, well, random.

Solution

Keep the automatically-generated UUID as the default, but allow any unique string as a name. That way users can request meaningful scopes such as "my_api" or "myserver.company.com".

Alternatives/workarounds

None. We're currently including the entity UUIDs in our documentation and hoping customers copy them correctly.

Related

• Add support for scope aliases for entities #1481

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[brazabr]

Another alternative to this would be a custom scope CRUD section where we could setup any scope and link it to entities/applications/users and leverage the permissions in FusionAuth to do its things.

I found this issue in the repo already:

• Custom scopes with oauth #275