Auth

This handles authentication for your application.

Features

• username-password based login and register
• schema creation for user
• jwt based token management

Usage

In your main function, call auth.Setup() as shown,

package main

import "github.com/bdfp/auth"

func main() {
    db, err := sql.Open("mysql", "root:morning_star@/diary")
	if err != nil {
		panic(err.Error())
	}
	defer db.Close()

	err = db.Ping()
	if err != nil {
		panic(err.Error())
	}
	log.Println("Database connection opened")

	// Set up auth
	go auth.Setup(db)
}

Database changes

the following user table is created in the passwed database

| user          |
| ------------- |
| id
| username      |
| password      |

API

This will also register login and register http handlers as described.Those will run on port 8484.

Path /login

• Method POST
• Request Object

  {
      "username": "your_username",
      "password": "your_password"
  }

• Response Object

  {
      "token": "eiofgheriuygij wer",
      "user": {
          "username": "your_username"
      }
  }

Path /register

• Method POST
• Request Object

{
    "username": "your_username",
    "password": "your_password"
}

• Response Object

{
	"message": "success"
}

Middleware

In order to secure any route with jwt, just use the auth.Secure(yourHandler) while registering your router Example:

func startHTTPServer(db *sql.DB) {
	router := httprouter.New()
	router.POST("/tasks", auth.Secure(myHandler))
	log.Fatal(http.ListenAndServe(":8484", router))
}