hapi-jsonwebtoken

JsonWebToken implementation for Hapi.js v17+ with authentication plugin and server methods.

This library provides a simple and easy way to integrate node-jsonwebtoken in your code using one configuration object for each authentication strategy.

Installation

$ npm install --save hapi-jsonwebtoken

Usage

Authentication plugin

The hapi-jsonwebtoken library contains a plugin to create auth strategies.

...
const HapiJWT = require('hapi-jsonwebtoken');
const HapiJWTConfig = require('./config/jsonwebtoken');
...
await server.register(HapiJWT.plugin);
server.auth.strategy('jwt', 'hapi-jsonwebtoken', HapiJWTConfig);
server.auth.default('jwt');
...

See full example

Configuration object

Each strategy needs to have its configuration object. It is recommended to create a new file with all the configuration to include and use in your code.

const HapiJWTConfig = require('./config/jsonwebtoken');

The object can take following keys:

• secretOrPrivateKey (required)
• serverMethods:
  • enable set to false to not add the server methods. Default is true.
  • prefix: use to define the beginning of server method names . Default is "jwt" (functions: jwtSign jwtVerify, jwtDecode)
• sign:
  • promise: set to true to return a promise. Default is false.
  • options: options of method sign() docs. Default is null.
• verify:
  • promise: set to true to return a promise. Default is false
  • options: options of method verify() docs. Default is null.
• decode:
  • promise: set to true to return a promise. Default is false
  • options: options of method decode() on the docs. Default is null.
• getToken: function(request): (optional) custom function to get the token. By default, it checks request.headers.authorization and removes the string "Bearer " at the beginning.
• validate: function(request, payload, h): (required) a validation function to check the user credentials.
  • returns an object { isValid, credentials }
    • isValid - true if username was found and match with payload data, otherwise false.
    • credentials - a credentials object passed back to the application in request.auth.credentials.

Server methods

When a new hapi-jsonwebtoken strategy is added, three methods will be included on the server unless serverMethods.enable = false. These methods will use the same configuration object used for the plugin.

server.methods.jwtSign(data, [config])

server.methods.jwtDecode(token, [config])

server.methods.jwtSign(token, [config])

The param config is optional and only allows to overwrite keys of the initial configuration.

The name of the functions can be different depending of the value of serverMethods.prefix

The functions can return or different content depending of the value of sign, decode and verify.

More

Define multiple auth strategies

Each strategy needs to use a different configuration object and the value of serverMethods.prefix must be different to avoid duplicated server methods.

...
const HapiJWT = require('hapi-jsonwebtoken');
// Configuration can be included in the same config file
const HapiJWTConfig = require('./config/hapi-jsonwebtoken');
...
await server.register(HapiJWT.plugin);
server.auth.strategy('jwtInternal', 'hapi-jsonwebtoken', HapiJWTConfig.internal);
server.auth.strategy('jwtPublic', 'hapi-jsonwebtoken', HapiJWTConfig.public);
server.auth.default('jwtPublic');
...