joegasewicz / identity-client

Agnostic identity client

Identity Client

Agnostic identity client

HTTP client for remote api calls that takes a JWT token from either a cookie or a token value & includes this token in the headers, whilst trying to be as agnostic with the returned data type as possible.

Install

go get -u github.com/joegasewicz/identity-client

Setup

identity := Identity{
	URL: "http://127.0.01:5000/users",
	CookieName: "token", // Optional
	// If you do not have cookie & require authorisation then set the token value manually
	Token: "Bearer ..."
	Client &http.Client{} // Optional (for testing your client)
}

Methods

Get

data, err := identity.Get(r)

Post

jsonData := map[string]interface{}{"name": "John"}
data, err := identity.Post(r, jsonData)

The data returned will be of the following type

map[string]interface{}

You can cast each value to the expected type, for example

d := data.(map[string]interface{})
var email := d["email"].(string)

Utils

AddTokenPrefix

When you add a token value to the Identity type, you might want to add a Bearer prefix to the token value (or if you are unsure whether the incoming request token has a Bearer prefix)

i := identity_client.Identity{
    URL:   "http://127.0.01:5000/users",
    Token: identity_client.AddTokenPrefix(r.Header.Get("Authorization")),
}