authentication

Documentation

Index

• Constants
• func CheckCookie(r *http.Request) bool
• func CheckMail(email string) bool
• func ClearSession(w http.ResponseWriter)
• func GetCookieValue(r *http.Request) (string, error)
• func GetUsername(r *http.Request) (username string)
• func Login(username string, password string) bool
• func Register(username string, password string, email string) bool
• func SetSession(username string, w http.ResponseWriter) (*http.Cookie, error)
• func UpdatePassword(email, password string) bool

Constants

const DB string = "./server/database.db"

DB const variable indicates the path of the sqlite3 file

Functions

func CheckCookie

func CheckCookie(r *http.Request) bool

CheckCookie function checks if there is already a cookie or not

func CheckMail

func CheckMail(email string) bool

CheckMail check if mail is already exist in our db

func ClearSession

func ClearSession(w http.ResponseWriter)

ClearSession function Clears the cookie by modifying the cookie's MaxAge

func GetCookieValue

func GetCookieValue(r *http.Request) (string, error)

GetCookieValue From *http.request get the Cookie if available

func GetUsername

func GetUsername(r *http.Request) (username string)

GetUsername function takes http request as input and returns the username who was encoded before in the cookie

func Login

func Login(username string, password string) bool

Login Checks if the username and password entered are the same as others in the DB

func Register

func Register(username string, password string, email string) bool

Register Saves New Users into Sqlite DB

func SetSession

func SetSession(username string, w http.ResponseWriter) (*http.Cookie, error)

SetSession function takes username and the http response Writer as inputs Then Encode User's username and use it as a session cookie finally sets the cookie for the user otherwise it returns an error

func UpdatePassword

func UpdatePassword(email, password string) bool

UpdatePassword update user password