Echo Session Auth

This module help to use session based authentication for your echo web application.

Examples: link

Install

Install required modules

# Install `echo`
go get github.com/labstack/echo
go get github.com/jockerz/session-auth-echo

Preparation

1. Extending echo.Context

To have our session based auth works, User field is required.

type CustomContext struct {
    echo.Context
    User interface{}
}

2. User Struct

Create User struct for later use.

type User struct {
    ID       int
    Username string
    Password string
}

3. GetUser function

The GetUser(c echo.Context, UserID inteface{}) error function to get User instance and passed it to the User field on extended context struct.

Note: Main GetUser job is to assign the User instance to CustomContext.User field.

Usage example

// For demo only
var Users = []*User{
    &User{"First", 1},
    &User{"Second", 2},
}

function GetUser(c echo.Context, UserID interface{}) error {
    // required
	ctx := c.(*CustomContext)

	uid, _ := strconv.Atoi(fmt.Sprintf("%v", UserID))

	for _, user := range Users {
		if user.ID == uid {
            // REQUIRED
			ctx.User = user
			return nil
		}
	}
	return errors.New("user not found")
}

Usage

1. Create sessionauth.SessionAuth instance.

main.go

package main

import (
    ...
    sessionauth "github.com/jockerz/session-auth-echo"
)

var (
    auth *sessionauth.SessionAuth

    // Session auth config
    Config = sessionauth.MakeConfig(
		[]byte("changeme"),      // Secret Key
		"/login",                // UnAuthRedirect
		[]string{"favicon.ico"}, // Excluded path by strings
		[]*regexp.Regexp{},      // Exlcuded path by regex
	)
)

func main() {
    ...
    // Create session auth
	auth, _ = sessionauth.Create(Config, GetUser)
    ...
}

2. Use the Extended Context

Ref: Context

func main() {
    app := echo.New()
    
    app.Use(func(next echo.HandlerFunc) echo.HandlerFunc {
		return func(c echo.Context) error {
			cc := &CustomContext{
				Context: c,
			}
			return next(cc)
		}
	})
    ...
}

3. Middlewares

1. Session Middleware

After using the extended echo context, we need the *echo.Echo instance to use session and cookie. Therefore we load it after our custom context.

func main() {
    ...
    // Use session middleware
    app.Use(auth.GetSessionMiddleware())
}

2. Session Auth Middleware

Auth middleware is required to get User for each request session. Make sure you use this middleware after the session middleware.

func main() {
    ...
    // Use session middleware
    app.Use(auth.GetSessionMiddleware())
    // Session auth middleware
    app.Use(auth.AuthMiddlewareFunc)
}

4. Protecting Routes

Protected route example for authenticated user only

func ProtectedPage(c echo.Context) error {
	ctx := c.(*CustomContext)
    // required
	SessionAuth.LoginRequired(ctx)
    
    ...
}

Protected route example for freshly authenticated user only

func FreshOnlyProtectedPage(c echo.Context) error {
	ctx := c.(*CustomContext)
    // required
	SessionAuth.FreshLoginRequired(ctx)
	
    ...
}