calcutta

Calcutta

Readymade sign up/in/out UX for golang.

Warning

This is v.01 -- it has no tests, performance is probably awful and it's not proven safe in production anywhere. But maybe it'll scratch an itch?

WTF

Calcutta is an opinionated user auth flow built on top of likestripes/kolkata

Install / Import

go get -u github.com/likestripes/calcutta

import (
	_ "github.com/likestripes/calcutta"
)

Dependency on Pacific

Kolkata, and by extension Calcutta, uses likestripes/pacific as an opinionated ORM. Pacific currently supports AppEngine and Postgres.

Google AppEngine: goapp serve works out of the box (they include the buildtag for you)

Postgres: go run -tags 'postgres' main.go -- details in the pacific/Readme.

Overview

Calcutta instantiates simple sign in / sign up forms at:

/user/sign_up

/user/sign_in

As well as a sign out endpoint here: /user/sign_out Known issue -- as this is a GET request, a malicious third party could sign out the user via a cross site / iframe src-ing that URL

Once a user authenticates, they're passed back to either /user/hello or /user/error via your app.

Kolkata Primer

Calcutta establishes a basic sign in flow; to do something with that authenticated user, you'll probably want use Kolkata. Kolkata is designed to export a Person struct that can be mixed into whatever WildAndCrazyUser model your app requires:

type Person struct {
	PersonId    int64
	PersonIdStr string
	Timestamp   time.Time
	Secret      string
	Anon        bool   `datastore:"-" sql:"-" json:"-"`
	Scope       *Scope `datastore:"-" sql:"-" json:"-"`
}

The Person has n SignIns (a token + password used for authentication) and attaches itself to the current session from your app via person, err := kolkata.Current(w, r).

Forking, recompiling

The html found in /templates gets compiled into templates.go via github.com/mjibson/esc

TODO

• forgot password flow

• logging

• documentation!

• tests!

• benchmarking

• Contributors welcome!