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Version: 2.x (Latest)

How to use authorizer as API gateway

Note: This example demonstrates how to use authorizer in middleware for a go-gin server. But logic remains the same under the hood, where you can get auth token from header and validate it via authorizer SDK

package main

import (
"net/http"
"strings"

"github.com/authorizerdev/authorizer-go"
"github.com/gin-gonic/gin"
)

func AuthorizeMiddleware() gin.HandlerFunc {
return func(c *gin.Context) {
/**
for open routes you can add condition here and just return with c.Next()
so that it does not validate token for those routes
*/

authHeader := c.Request.Header.Get("Authorization")
tokenSplit := strings.Split(authHeader, " ")

defaultHeaders := map[string]string{}
authorizerClient, err := authorizer.NewAuthorizerClient("YOUR_CLIENT_ID", "YOUR_AUHTORIZER_URL", "OPTIONAL_REDIRECT_URL", defaultHeaders)
if err != nil {
// unauthorized
c.AbortWithStatusJSON(401, "unauthorized")
return
}

if len(tokenSplit) < 2 || tokenSplit[1] == "" {
// unauthorized
c.AbortWithStatusJSON(401, "unauthorized")
return
}

res, err := authorizerClient.ValidateJWTToken(&authorizer.ValidateJWTTokenInput{
TokenType: authorizer.TokenTypeIDToken,
Token: tokenSplit[1],
})
if err != nil {
// unauthorized
c.AbortWithStatusJSON(401, "unauthorized")
return
}

if !res.IsValid {
// unauthorized
c.AbortWithStatusJSON(401, "unauthorized")
return
}

c.Next()
}
}

func main() {
router := gin.New()
router.Use(AuthorizeMiddleware())

router.GET("/ping", func(c *gin.Context) {
c.JSON(http.StatusOK, gin.H{
"message": "pong",
})
})

router.Run(":8090")
}

CURL command to test go-gin server created in example

Copy JWT ID token from login response of authorizer login mutation / social media login and replace JWT_TOKEN below

curl --location --request GET 'http://localhost:8090/ping' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer JWT_TOKEN'