authentication

Documentation

Overview

Package authentication challenges user credentials and creates or destroys cookie based sessions.

Index

• func CsrfToken(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request)
• func Login(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request)
• func Logout(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request)
• type Credentials
  • func DecodeCredentials(r *http.Request) (c Credentials)

Functions

func CsrfToken

func CsrfToken(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request)

CsrfToken will generate a CSRF Token

func Login

func Login(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request)

Login gets a new session for the user if the credential check passes

func Logout

func Logout(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request)

Logout destroys the session

Types

type Credentials

type Credentials struct {
	Email, Password string
}

Credentials are the user provided email and password

func DecodeCredentials

func DecodeCredentials(r *http.Request) (c Credentials)

DecodeCredentials decodes the JSON data into a struct containing the email and password.DecodeCredentials