kong-plugin-jwt-to-headers

KongPlugin JWT to headers

Convert JWT claims to request http haders.

Usage

// js-plugins/jwt-to-headers.ts
import { Plugin, Schema, Version } from 'kong-plugin-jwt-to-headers'

module.exports = {
  Plugin,
  Schema,
  Version,
  Priority: 10,
};

Example:

eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzdWIiOiIxMjM0NTY3ODkwIiwibmFtZSI6IkpvaG4gRG9lIiwiaWF0IjoxNTE2MjM5MDIyfQ.SflKxwRJSMeKKF2QT4fwpMeJf36POk6yJV_adQssw5c

Request:

headers:
  Authorization: Bearer $ENCODED_JWT

decoded JWT payload:

{
  "sub": "1234567890",
  "name": "John Doe",
  "iat": 1516239022
}

The Kong plugin decode de JWT and add request headers:

x-jwt-claim-sub: "1234567890"
x-jwt-claim-name: "John Doe"
x-jwt-claim-iat: "1516239022"

Note All header values will be converted to string.

Waring This plugin it does not serve to validate a JWT, but if the JWT have bad formatted it will return

Status: 400
Body: Invalid JWT token $ENCODED_JWT