usertok

Documentation

Overview

Package usertok creates tokens which authenticate and identify users in a stateless way

Index

• func ExtractUser(userTok string, secret []byte) string
• func New(user string, secret []byte) string

Functions

func ExtractUser

func ExtractUser(userTok string, secret []byte) string

ExtractUser takes in a userTok as returned by New() and extracts the user identifier that was passed into New() and returns it. Returns empty string if the user token can't be extracted due to an invalid token

func New

func New(user string, secret []byte) string

New returns a new user token given a user identifying string and a secret