access

access

Ponzu Addon to manage API access grants and tokens for authentication

Installation:

$ ponzu add github.com/bosssauce/access

Usage

// content/user.go
package content

import (
	"github.com/bosssauce/access"
	// ...
)

type User struct {
    // ... 
	Email         string `json:"email"`
	AccountStatus string `json:"account_status"`
}

// create a grant for a user after one has been created via API call
func (u *User) AfterAPICreate(res http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) error {
	// create an access configuration including the duration after which the
	// token will expire, the ResponseWriter to write the token to, and which
	// of the req.Header or req.Cookie{}
	cfg := &access.Config{
		ExpireAfter:    time.Hour * 24 * 7,
		ResponseWriter: res,
		TokenStore:     req.Header,
	}

	// Grant access to the user based on the request
	grant, err := access.Grant(u.Email, req.PostFormValue("password"), cfg)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}

	fmt.Printf(
		"The access token for user (%s) is: %s\n",
		grant.Key, grant.Token,
	)

	return nil
}

Then, from other content type files:

// content/private_event.go
package content

import (
	"github.com/bosssauce/access"
	// ...
)

type PrivateEvent struct {
	// ...
	OrganizerEmail string
	Location       string
	Duration       int
	Rsvps          []string
}

func (e *PrivateEvent) BeforeAPICreate(res http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) error {
	if !access.IsGranted(req, req.Header) {
		return fmt.Errorf(
			"no access grant or valid token in request from: %s", 
			req.RemoteAddr,
		)
	}

	// request contains proper, valid token
	return nil
}

func (e *PrivateEvent) BeforeAPIUpdate(res http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) error {
	if !access.IsOwner(req, req.Header, e.OrganizerEmail) {
		return fmt.Errorf(
			"grant provided is not owner of PrivateEvent, from %s", 
			req.RemoteAddr,
		)
	}

	// request contains proper, valid token
	return nil
}

Motivation

Some Ponzu content types need to be kept locked down and only accessible to specific users or other owners. The access addon makes it easy to create a token-based access grant provided to a user, and then control the flow of data output through Ponzu's content API through package methods like access.IsGranted and access.IsOwner. Once a grant has been given to a request and returned via the response, the provided token is used to make follow-on requests for content which may be otherwise hidden, have omitted fields, or block create/update/delete operations.

API

APIAccess is the data for an API access grant

type APIAccess struct {
	Email string `json:"email"`
	Hash  string `json:"hash"`
	Salt  string `json:"salt"`
	Token string `json:"token"`
}

Config contains settings for token creation and validation

type Config struct {
	ExpireAfter    time.Duration
	ResponseWriter http.ResponseWriter
	TokenStore     reqHeaderOrHTTPCookie
	CustomClaims   map[string]interface{} // claims to add to your token
	SecureCookie   bool // optional, if using http.Cookie{} as TokenStore
}

• Note: The TokenStore reqHeaderOrHTTPCookie field within Config is an interface{} used to declare the means by which a token is sent and checked by the access addon. Setting it to the req.Header will add an "Authorization: Beader $TOKEN" header to the response, and alternatively setting the TokenStore to an http.Cookie{} will add the token in a cookie named _apiAccessToken to the response.

Grant creates a new APIAccess and saves it to the __apiAccess bucket in the database and if an existing APIAccess grant is encountered in the database, Grant attempts to update the grant but will fail if unauthorized

func Grant(key, password string, cfg *Config) (*APIAccess, error)

IsGranted checks if the user request is authenticated by the token held within the provided tokenStore (should be a http.Cookie or http.Header)

func IsGranted(req *http.Request, tokenStore reqHeaderOrHTTPCookie) bool

IsOwner validates the access token and checks the claims within the authenticated request's JWT for the key associated with the grant.

func IsOwner(req *http.Request, tokenStore reqHeaderOrHTTPCookie, key string) bool