inblox-authentication-middleware

This package contains the code related to authentication token process w.r.t IDS service

Installation

This is a Node.js module available through the npm registry. It can be installed using the npm command line tools.

npm install inblox-authentication-middleware --save

Tests

npm install
npm test

##USAGES

To use this middleware you need to do the following things in your entry level file.

const { authentication } = require('inblox-authentication-middleware');

The above line of statement is used to require the middleware method.

const express = require('express');

const app = express();
const router = express.Router();
const options = {
    IDENTITY_SERVICE_URL: 'http://identity-server.me'
}
app.use('/', authentication(options), router);

Options information

The following are the options that can be passed to Multer.

Key	Description	Note
IDENTITY_SERVICE_URL	Identity server URL which will validate the JWK
ISSUER	Issuer of JWT token (Optional)
AUDIENCE	Audience of JWT token (Optional)
PUBLIC_KEY_PATH	Public key path (Optional)
JWKSURL	JWK's url (Optional)
ignorePaths	ignore routes path (Optional) like: [ '/ping', '/helathcheck', '/user/:userId' ]

The above line of statement demonstrate the usage of middleware function in order to get authenticate the user Authorization token w.r.t IDS service. The function should be used in above manner.

a) authPreCheck method will check the basic validation like required configuration is set or not if not then will throws the error and also save an appropriate logs as well. b) jwtVerify method will verify the Authroization token w.r.t IDS service and set the user information under req.user object. c) authPostCheck method will verify the whether the request token is verified by IDS service, if yes then there should be a req.user object.

Dependencies

• jwks-rsa: Library to retrieve RSA public keys from a JWKS endpoint
• express-jwt: JWT authentication middleware.

Dev Dependencies

None

License

MIT