go-chi/chi

Is jwtauth to validate jwt ? or can I create new jwt tokens using jwtauth?

mahesh-riddles opened this issue · 1 comments

mahesh-riddles commented

Hi

`tokenAuth = jwtauth.New("HS256", []byte("secret"), nil)

// For debugging/example purposes, we generate and print
// a sample jwt token with claims `user_id:123` here:
_, tokenString, _ := tokenAuth.Encode(map[string]interface{}{"user_id": 123})
fmt.Printf("DEBUG: a sample jwt is %s\n\n", tokenString)`

From this example, it seems I can create new JWT token.
But how do I give expiry date/time and other details?

pkieltyka commented

hi there, jwtauth is a jwt authentication library built on top of github.com/lestrrat-go/jwx/v2 (see https://github.com/go-chi/jwtauth/blob/master/go.mod#L7) which gives you a jwt auth middleware handler and few extra helper methods.

you can generate JWT tokens with any JWT compatible library, including jwx/v2, or with jwtauth as well.

See https://github.com/go-chi/jwtauth/blob/master/_example/main.go#L78 for how to generate a jwt token with jwtauth.

for validation, see https://github.com/go-chi/jwtauth/blob/master/_example/main.go#L93-L100

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