auth

Documentation

Index

• Constants
• func CurrentUser(ctx context.Context) *model.Person
• func Logout(ctx context.Context)
• func SetCurrentUserID(ctx context.Context, id string)
• func ValidatePassword(password string, userName string) bool

Constants

const UserSessionVar = "GoraddUserId" // Change this to a unique session variable name for your application

Functions

func CurrentUser

func CurrentUser(ctx context.Context) *model.Person

CurrentUser returns the currently logged in user object, or nil if no user is logged in. It will cache the user information and store it in the context for future reference in the current request, so that the database does not need to be queried each time. It gets the current user out of the sesssion. If there is no current user, it returns nil.

func Logout

func Logout(ctx context.Context)

Logout does the steps required to log out the current user

func SetCurrentUserID

func SetCurrentUserID(ctx context.Context, id string)

func ValidatePassword

func ValidatePassword(password string, userName string) bool

ValidatePassword enforces the rules about what makes up a good enough password for our system We are using a 3rd party library to evaluate password strength. This same library is available in javascript, but this is a server side check.