Authentication API
This part of the exercise is responsible for the users authentication.
POST /login
- takes a JSON and returns an access token
The JSON structure is:
{
"username": "admin",
"password": "admin",
}
Configuration
The service scans environment for variables:
AUTH_API_PORT
- the port the service takes.
USERS_API_ADDRESS
- base URL of Users API.
JWT_SECRET
- secret value for JWT token processing. Must be the same amongst all components.
Initial data
Following users are hardcoded for you:
Username |
Password |
admin |
admin |
johnd |
foo |
janed |
ddd |
Building
- export GO111MODULE=on
- go mod init github.com/bortizf/microservice-app-example/tree/master/auth-api
- go mod tidy
- go build
Running
JWT_SECRET=PRFT AUTH_API_PORT=8000 USERS_API_ADDRESS=http://127.0.0.1:8083 ./auth-api
Usage
In case you need to test this API, you can use it as follows:
curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:8000/login -d '{"username": "admin","password": "admin"}'
Dependencies
Here you can find the software required to run this microservice, as well as the version we have tested.
Dependency |
Version |
Go |
1.18.2 |