Seed local db/docker with some client id and secret for CI medplum #support

Seed local db/docker with some client id and secre...

Stephen Henderson

10/28/2025, 2:10 PM

Hi, I'm trying to run some tests in CI against the Medplum server docker container, and I'm running into issues where there is no project/client in the initial db, so the CI tests can't authenticate. Locally I just created the client/secret and set in my

.env

, and I thought that I could just set

MEDPLUM_CLIENT_ID

and

MEDPLUM_CLIENT_SECRET

to some arbitrary value in the Medplum server docker container, but this doesn't seem to be the case. Worst case, I can write some setup script to add values to the

Project

and

ClientApplication

tables when I create the Medplum db in the Postgres container, but this seems a bit messy. Is there some better way to do this?

Stephen Henderson

10/28/2025, 4:19 PM

I tried writing the sql script and seeding the db with some test project and client application, but when using the client id and secret to request a token from Medplum it returns "Invalid client"

nathan-watkins-unityai

10/28/2025, 4:39 PM

Couple links you might find helpful- Github discussion: https://github.com/medplum/medplum/discussions/2957 Discord thread: https://discord.com/channels/905144809105260605/1418704847565230151/1418770038206234696

Stephen Henderson

10/28/2025, 5:24 PM

Thank you! This is what I was looking for.

Stephen Henderson

10/28/2025, 5:24 PM

Funnily enough I kicked off an AI agent to try to research and solve this for me while I was eating lunch and it essentially came up with this exact solution.

thomabig

10/29/2025, 10:34 PM

Indeed it works correctly with the set up script ! we are using it and have no issue so far.

nathan-watkins-unityai

11/03/2025, 3:14 PM

Not yet released but looks like a [PR got merged](https://github.com/medplum/medplum/pull/7739) that will make this easier by adding config for a

defaultSuperAdminClientId

and

defaultSuperAdminClientSecret

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