Faya

Faya provides a simple way to create and manage tokens through its web interface or its API.

Usage

You can create tokens with various properties :

• Active (true/false)

• From (date)

• To (date)

• Pool (number)

The Active property prevails over the others. All properties can be set at the same time, for instance, if you set To property to 2017-01-01 00:00 and Pool property to 25 000 then the token can be used 25 000 times until 2017-01-01 00:00. Once the date is reached, the token cannot be used again, even if the Pool is not empty yet. Correspondingly, if the token is used 25 000 times before the date then it cannot be used again even though the date hasn’t been reached yet.

Tokens are stored in namespaces in order to use them for totally unrelated subjects. Consequently, a token is valid (or not) against a specific namespace.

Configuration

Some environment variables are available to configure Faya :

Table 1. Environment variables

Name	Default	Description
MONGO_URL	null	Full URL of the MongoDB instance used for production
MONGO_TEST_URL	mongodb://localhost/faya_test	Full URL of the MongoDB instance used for tests
JWT_SECRET	changethis	Secret used to sign JWT
HTTPS_ENABLED	null	Set to true if Faya is behind a reverse proxy providing HTTPS
LOG_LEVEL	info	Pick from [error, warn, info, verbose, debug, silly]
MAIL_HOST	null	SMTP host
MAIL_PORT	null	SMTP port
MAIL_TLS	null	SMTP TLS
MAIL_USERNAME	null	SMPT username
MAIL_PASSWORD	null	SMTP password
MAIL_FROM	null	Email address used to send mail

Run

You can either install node and NPM to run Faya or simply build the Docker image :

docker build -t faya .
docker run -e MONGO_URL=... faya

Important

This repository only contains the Faya server. In order to deploy/run a full instance, see deploy-exemple directory

References

• JSend https://labs.omniti.com/labs/jsend

• https://github.com/madhums/node-express-mongoose-demo