An exercise in demonstrating simple authentication between client and server.
The server takes no flags--just make all and run bin/server.
The client has full help output. To see it, run bin/client.
You can also see it all in action by running demo.sh. The expected output is shown in a screenshot below.
- Database models following a loose repository pattern (link)
- Gingko BDD for the database repositories--almost 20% coverage!
These executables need to be available and generally aren't installed by default on Mac or Linux:
- go
- sqlite3
These are some of the things that would need to be changed, or otherwise should be changed, before this application would be deployed.
- Passwords are entered on the client in plaintext
- Default ServeHTTP handler requires actual endpoints to reparse request bodies
- Helper function commonality/design (ties into first point)
- There's a lot of boilerplate in the client functions and endpoints
- Naming consistencies
- Server's hardcoded configuration in main.
- Client should not be configured to read a specific root CA.
- The http.Client usage in the client should be replaced with an interface (ideally a type that's from a standard Go library) for dependency injection
- Very limited request format (see next point)
- Should have used gRPC in hindsight, but this was fun to do from scratch anyway.
