Interface JWTAuth

All Superinterfaces:

AuthenticationProvider

public interface JWTAuth
extends AuthenticationProvider

Factory interface for creating JWT based AuthenticationProvider instances.

Author:

Paulo Lopes

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static JWTAuth	create(Vertx vertx, JWTAuthOptions config)	Create a JWT auth provider
String	generateToken(JsonObject claims)	Generate a new JWT token.
String	generateToken(JsonObject claims, JWTOptions options)	Generate a new JWT token.

Methods inherited from interface AuthenticationProvider

authenticate

Method Details

create

static JWTAuth create(Vertx vertx,
 JWTAuthOptions config)

Create a JWT auth provider

Parameters:

vertx - the Vertx instance

config - the config

Returns:

the auth provider

generateToken

String generateToken(JsonObject claims,
 JWTOptions options)

Generate a new JWT token.

Parameters:

claims - Json with user defined claims for a list of official claims

options - extra options for the generation

Returns:

JWT encoded token

See Also:

• www.iana.org/assignments/jwt/jwt.xhtml

generateToken

String generateToken(JsonObject claims)

Generate a new JWT token.

Parameters:

claims - Json with user defined claims for a list of official claims

Returns:

JWT encoded token

See Also:

• www.iana.org/assignments/jwt/jwt.xhtml