// A useful example app. You can use this to debug your tokens on the command line. // This is also a great place to look at how you might use this library. // // Example usage: // The following will create and sign a token, then verify it and output the original claims. // echo {\"foo\":\"bar\"} | bin/jwt -key test/sample_key -alg RS256 -sign - | bin/jwt -key test/sample_key.pub -verify - package main import ( "encoding/json" "flag" "fmt" "io" "io/ioutil" "os" "regexp" "github.com/dgrijalva/jwt-go" ) var ( // Options flagAlg = flag.String("alg", "", "signing algorithm identifier") flagKey = flag.String("key", "", "path to key file or '-' to read from stdin") flagCompact = flag.Bool("compact", false, "output compact JSON") flagDebug = flag.Bool("debug", false, "print out all kinds of debug data") // Modes - exactly one of these is required flagSign = flag.String("sign", "", "path to claims object to sign or '-' to read from stdin") flagVerify = flag.String("verify", "", "path to JWT token to verify or '-' to read from stdin") ) func main() { // Usage message if you ask for -help or if you mess up inputs. flag.Usage = func() { fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Usage of %s:\n", os.Args[0]) fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, " One of the following flags is required: sign, verify\n") flag.PrintDefaults() } // Parse command line options flag.Parse() // Do the thing. If something goes wrong, print error to stderr // and exit with a non-zero status code if err := start(); err != nil { fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Error: %v\n", err) os.Exit(1) } } // Figure out which thing to do and then do that func start() error { if *flagSign != "" { return signToken() } else if *flagVerify != "" { return verifyToken() } else { flag.Usage() return fmt.Errorf("None of the required flags are present. What do you want me to do?") } } // Helper func: Read input from specified file or stdin func loadData(p string) ([]byte, error) { if p == "" { return nil, fmt.Errorf("No path specified") } var rdr io.Reader if p == "-" { rdr = os.Stdin } else { if f, err := os.Open(p); err == nil { rdr = f defer f.Close() } else { return nil, err } } return ioutil.ReadAll(rdr) } // Print a json object in accordance with the prophecy (or the command line options) func printJSON(j interface{}) error { var out []byte var err error if *flagCompact == false { out, err = json.MarshalIndent(j, "", " ") } else { out, err = json.Marshal(j) } if err == nil { fmt.Println(string(out)) } return err } // Verify a token and output the claims. This is a great example // of how to verify and view a token. func verifyToken() error { // get the token tokData, err := loadData(*flagVerify) if err != nil { return fmt.Errorf("Couldn't read token: %v", err) } // trim possible whitespace from token tokData = regexp.MustCompile(`\s*$`).ReplaceAll(tokData, []byte{}) if *flagDebug { fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Token len: %v bytes\n", len(tokData)) } // Parse the token. Load the key from command line option token, err := jwt.Parse(string(tokData), func(t *jwt.Token) (interface{}, error) { return loadData(*flagKey) }) // Print some debug data if *flagDebug && token != nil { fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Header:\n%v\n", token.Header) fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Claims:\n%v\n", token.Claims) } // Print an error if we can't parse for some reason if err != nil { return fmt.Errorf("Couldn't parse token: %v", err) } // Is token invalid? if !token.Valid { return fmt.Errorf("Token is invalid") } // Print the token details if err := printJSON(token.Claims); err != nil { return fmt.Errorf("Failed to output claims: %v", err) } return nil } // Create, sign, and output a token. This is a great, simple example of // how to use this library to create and sign a token. func signToken() error { // get the token data from command line arguments tokData, err := loadData(*flagSign) if err != nil { return fmt.Errorf("Couldn't read token: %v", err) } else if *flagDebug { fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Token: %v bytes", len(tokData)) } // parse the JSON of the claims var claims map[string]interface{} if err := json.Unmarshal(tokData, &claims); err != nil { return fmt.Errorf("Couldn't parse claims JSON: %v", err) } // get the key keyData, err := loadData(*flagKey) if err != nil { return fmt.Errorf("Couldn't read key: %v", err) } // get the signing alg alg := jwt.GetSigningMethod(*flagAlg) if alg == nil { return fmt.Errorf("Couldn't find signing method: %v", *flagAlg) } // create a new token token := jwt.New(alg) token.Claims = claims if out, err := token.SignedString(keyData); err == nil { fmt.Println(out) } else { return fmt.Errorf("Error signing token: %v", err) } return nil }