IBXCODECAT/MATC_JWTAuthentication

This repository contains the code I wrote for my college class at MATC

Code Documentation

Overview

The provided code is a C# program that demonstrates the usage of a JWT (JSON Web Token) authentication system. It includes the creation of a JWT container with user information, token generation, validation, and extraction of claims. The goal of this project was to dive deeper into API Authentication (a topic only touched on in my class). This repository is a bare and stripped down version of a token authentication system. This IS NOT production ready!

Components

1. Program Class

• Program is the main class containing the entry point Main method.
• The program showcases the usage of JWT authentication.

2. Main Method

• The Main method initializes a JWT container, generates a token using a JWT service, validates the token, and extracts and displays user claims if the token is valid.

3. JWT Authentication

• The JWT authentication is encapsulated in the IAuth and IAuthMethod interfaces.
• GetJWT method creates a JWT object with user claims.

4. JWTService

• JWTService is an implementation of the IAuthMethod interface for JWT-based authentication.
• It takes a secret key during initialization and provides methods for token generation, validation, and claim extraction.

Usage

1. The GetJWT method creates a JWT object with user claims (name and email).
2. The JWTService is initialized with the secret key obtained from the IAuth object.
3. The program generates a token using the GenerateToken method of the IAuthMethod interface.
4. The generated token is validated using the ValidateToken method.
5. If the token is valid, user claims (name and email) are extracted and displayed.

Error Handling

• If token validation fails, an UnauthorizedAccessException is thrown.