dropwizard-auth-jwt
A Dropwizard authentication filter using JSON Web Token (JWT).
What is it?
JSON Web Token (JWT) is a compact URL-safe means of representing claims to be transferred between two parties. The claims in a JWT are encoded as a JSON object that is digitally signed using JSON Web Signature (JWS).
Check out http://jwt.io/
What's new in v1.1.2-0
- Updated upstream dependencies to Dropwizard 1.1.2
- Updated upstream dependencies to jose4j to 0.6.0
What's new in v1.1.0-0
- Updated upstream dependencies to Dropwizard 1.1.0
What's new in v1.0.6-0
- Updated upstream dependencies to Dropwizard 1.0.6 and jose4j to 0.5.5
What's new in v1.0.2-0
- Updated upstream dependencies to Dropwizard 1.0.2 and jose4j to 0.5.2
What's new in v1.0.0-0
- Replaced the JWT token generation and verification with jose4j.
What's new in v0.9.2-0
- Updated the dependencies to Dropwizard 0.9.2.
What's new in v0.9.1-1
- Added support for CachingAuthenticator.
What's new in v0.9.1-0
- Added support for Dropwizard 0.9.x.
- Support for extracting JWT tokens from cookies.
Getting Started
To use this library in your project you can download it from Maven Central.
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.github.toastshaman</groupId>
    <artifactId>dropwizard-auth-jwt</artifactId>
    <version>1.1.2-0</version>
</dependency>
Example
See this code example if you want to use this code your dropwizard application. Once you have started the example application here are some sample requests to generate a valid and an expired token:
curl -X GET -H "Cache-Control: no-cache" 'http://localhost:8080/jwt/generate-valid-token'
or you can create an invalid token instead to see a failure case with:
curl -X GET -H "Cache-Control: no-cache" 'http://localhost:8080/jwt/generate-expired-token'
Once you have a token, you can send it to the following endpoint to get some information about the logged in user:
curl -X GET \
-H "Authorization: Bearer eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzUxMiJ9.eyJpYXQiOjE0NDkzMTQwOTUsInN1YiI6Imdvb2QtZ3V5In0.oFXdelQECJrw6_e4gR1HU3ljFvY8zmf2EHDsBnnea7n2UDBipmNDbx3bw-Bzzq-FwtEO6qzageK2jbJxM6JHbQ" \
-H "Cache-Control: no-cache" 'http://localhost:8080/jwt/check-token'
License
Apache License Version 2.0
http://apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt
Thanks To
A special thanks goes to MartinSahlen for providing a Gist with the Dropwizard 8 implementation of the AuthFactory.
A special thanks goes to Kimble for adding cookie support.
A special thanks goes to alexitooi for adding support for the CachingAuthenticator.