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Yaşar İÇLİ
Yaşar İÇLİ

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Authentication with gin-gonic && gah for golang

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I have developed a nice rest api at the weekend with Golang.

What is important here is to log in and register using golang in a simple way.

Gin Auth Handlers - github

I'm very excited and let's get started.

First let's create a golang project:

$ mkdir project
$ cd project
$ touch main.go
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Let's install the gin and gah(Gin Auth Handlers) packages.

$ go get -u github.com/gin-gonic/gin
$ go get -u github.com/yasaricli/gah
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Open our main.go file as follows

package main

import (
  "github.com/gin-gonic/gin"
  "github.com/yasaricli/gah"
)

func main() {
  router := gin.Default()

  api := router.Group("/api")
  {
    api.POST("/login", gah.LoginHandler)
    api.POST("/register", gah.RegisterHandler)
  }

  router.Run(":3000")
}
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Let's set environment variables.

export MONGO_URL=mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017 # MongoDB server URL.
export MONGO_DATABASE=project_db # MongoDB Project db name
export MONGO_COLLECTION=users # Collection to register all users
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Let's start api with run command.

go run main.go
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Register Request

You need to POST email and password to register.

http POST http://localhost:3000/api/register email=yasaricli@gmail.com password=12345
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Response:

Status Code: 200

{
  "data": {
    "_id": "5e18b00ecf1474424f04e68a",
    "email": "yasaricli@gmail.com"
  },
  "status": "success"
}
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Login Request

You need to POST email and password to login.

http POST http://localhost:4000/api/login email=yasaricli@gmail.com password=12345
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Response:

Status Code: 200

{
  "data": {
    "authToken": "402b2f399114746e583ec3094d613c91c553e238e8f6bdbf55a80865a72d39e7",
    "userId": "5e18b00ecf1474424f04e68a"
  },
  "status": "success"
}
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I am developing the gah(Gin Auth Handlers) package. You can help if you want.

Gin Auth Handlers - github

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