README.md

Golangjwt

An experiment to understand the implementation of JWT in Golang.

How to run the project locally

• clone the repo

cd golangjwt
go run main.go

Endpoints available

The server runs on port 9000 and can be accessed with the following end-points-

user signup

http://localhost:9000/users/signup

• it is a POST request which takes the following as the payload.

{
    "first_name":"abc",
    "last_name":"def",
    "password":"abc123%",
    "email":"[email protected]",
    "phone":"1234567892",
    "user_type": "<user_type>" 
}

• user_type is string that takes the following values -
  • "ADMIN": user_type ADMIN has access to all routes(users, users/:id).
  • "USER": user_type USER has access to USER routes(users/:id)

user login

http://localhost:9000/users/login

• it is POST request which takes the following as the payload.

{
    "password":"abc123%",
    "email":"[email protected]"
}

get all users

http://localhost:9000/users

• it is GET request with a header "token" containing the access_token.

get individual user

localhost:9000/users/:id

• it is GET request with a header "token" containing the access_token.
• user_id is passed as a path parameter.