JWT authentication about tsoa

[isman-usoh]

example for express.js

authenticationModule.ts

import * as jwt from 'jsonwebtoken';

export function expressAuthentication(request: any, securityName: string, scopes?: string[]): Promise<any> {
    const token = request.body.token || request.query.token || request.headers['x-access-token'];

    return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
        if (!token) {
            reject(new Error("No token provided"))
        }
        jwt.verify(token, "[secret]", function (err: any, decoded: any) {
            if (err) {
                reject(err)
            } else {
                resolve(decoded)
            }
        });
    });
}

controller.ts

    @Get("userinfo")
    public async userInfo(@Request() request: any): Promise<UserResponseModel> {
        return Promise.resolve(request.user);
    }

[empitegayan]

Thanks you very much @isman-usoh great example and i think still we need Security decorator to enable authmodule isn't? and also i have noted there are two additional decorators JWT and JWTHolder do you have any idea about them?

[isman-usoh]

@empitegayan JWT decorators and JWTHolder deprecated version 1.1