JWT Auth API
This project is a Microservice that provides a token to authenticate a user.
How to install
At first, you need to install Docker in your machine. Then run the code bellow on terminal:
sudo docker-compose up
Just it.
How to use it
I recommend to install Postman to make the requests.
- Sign up:
Open Postman and choose a POST request. The path is:
http://localhost:5000/api/register
In the "Body" section, select x-www-form-urlencoded. Pass an email (write your email) followed by a password (choose your password).
- Auth:
Still in POST request:
http://localhost:5000/api/authenticate
In the "Body" section, select x-www-form-urlencoded. Pass the email previously chosen and the password in the same way. You will receive in the response body a token. Copy it now.
- My messages:
Change to a GET request
http://localhost:5000/api/chat
In the "Header" section, write as key Authorization and paste your token in the value field. Probably you will receive an empty array in the response body, because you don't have messages yet.
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Create some other user as test
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Open some Mongo GUI like Robomongo or MongoDB Compass and copy the _id of the user created in the previous step
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Send a message:
Select POST request again
http://localhost:5000/api/chat
In the "Body" section, select x-www-form-urlencoded. Put a to key and the id of the user copied in the step 5. Pass too a message_body key with the content of message in the value field. In the "Headers" section, put a second key called Authorization with your token.
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Authenticate the user created in the step 4
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Get the messages of this user as showed in the step 3