Provided by: libmojolicious-plugin-authentication-perl_1.32-1_all bug

NAME

       Mojolicious::Plugin::Authentication - A plugin to make authentication a bit easier

VERSION

       version 1.32

SYNOPSIS

           use Mojolicious::Plugin::Authentication

           $self->plugin('authentication' => {
               autoload_user   => 1,
               session_key     => 'wickedapp',
               load_user       => sub { ... },
               validate_user   => sub { ... },
               current_user_fn => 'user', # compatibility with old code
           });

           my $authenticated = $self->authenticate(
               'username', 'password',
               { optional => 'extra data stuff' },
           );

           if ($authenticated) {
               ...
           }

METHODS

       Like other Mojolicious plugins, loading this plugin will import some function helpers into
       the namespace of your application. This will not normally cause any trouble, but be aware
       that if you define methods with the same names as those below, you'll likely run into
       unexpected results.

   authenticate($username, $password, $extra_data_hashref)
       Authenticate will use the supplied "load_user" and "validate_user" subroutine refs to see
       whether a user exists with the given username and password, and will set up the session
       accordingly. Returns true when the user has been successfully authenticated, false
       otherwise. You can pass additional data along in the "extra_data" hashref, it will be
       passed to your "validate_user" subroutine as-is. If the extra data hash contains a key
       "auto_validate", the value of that key will be used as the UID, and authenticate will not
       call your "validate_user" callback; this can be used when working with OAuth tokens or
       other authentication mechanisms that do not use a local username and password form.

   is_user_authenticated
       Returns true if current_user() returns some valid object, false otherwise.

   current_user
       Returns the user object as it was returned from the supplied "load_user" subroutine ref.

       You can change the current user by passing it in, but be careful: This bypasses the
       authentication. This is useful if you have multiple ways to authenticate users and want to
       re-use authorization checks that use "current_user".

   reload_user
       Flushes the current user object and then returns user().

   signature_exists
       Returns true if uid signature exist on the client side (in cookies), false otherwise.

       Warning: non-secure check! Use this method only for a "fast & dirty" lookup to see if the
       client has the proper cookies. May be helpful in some cases (for example - in counting
       "guest"/"logged users" or for additional non-confidential information for "logged users"
       but not for "guest").

   logout
       Removes the session data for authentication, and effectively logs a user out.  Returns a
       true value, to allow for chaining.

CONFIGURATION

       The following options can be set for the plugin:

       load_user (REQUIRED)
           A coderef for user loading (see "USER LOADING")

       validate_user (REQUIRED)
           A coderef for user validation (see "USER VALIDATION")

       session_key (optional)
           The name of the session key

       autoload_user (optional)
           Turn on/off automatic loading of user data - user data can be loaded only if it be
           used. May reduce site latency in some cases.

       current_user_fn (optional)
           Set the name for the "current_user()" helper function

       fail_render (optional)
           Specify what is to be rendered when the authenticated condition is not met.

           Set to a coderef which will be called with the following signature:

               sub {
                   my ($routes, $controller, $captures, $required) = @_;
                   ...
                   return $hashref;
               }

           The return value of the subroutine will be ignored if it evaluates to false.  If it
           returns a hash reference, it will be dereferenced and passed as-is to the controller's
           "render" function. If you return anything else, you are going to have a bad time.

           If set directly to a hash reference, that will be passed to "render" instead.

       In order to set the session expiry time, use the following in your startup routine:

           $app->plugin('authentication', { ... });
           $app->sessions->default_expiration(86400); # set expiry to 1 day
           $app->sessions->default_expiration(3600); # set expiry to 1 hour

USER LOADING

       The coderef you pass to the load_user configuration key has the following signature:

           sub {
               my ($app, $uid) = @_;
               ...
               return $user;
           }

       The uid is the value that was originally returned from the "validate_user" coderef. You
       must return either a user object (it can be a hashref, arrayref, or a blessed object) or
       undef.

USER VALIDATION

       User validation is what happens when we need to authenticate someone. The coderef you pass
       to the "validate_user" configuration key has the following signature:

           sub {
               my ($app, $username, $password, $extradata) = @_;
               ...
               return $uid;
           }

       You must return either a user id or undef. The user id can be numerical or a string. Do
       not return hashrefs, arrayrefs or objects, since the behaviour of this plugin could get a
       little bit on the odd side of weird if you do that.

EXAMPLES

       For a code example using this, see the t/01-functional.t and t/02-functional_lazy.t tests,
       it uses Mojolicious::Lite and this plugin.

ROUTING VIA CONDITION

       This plugin also exports a routing condition you can use in order to limit access to
       certain documents to only authenticated users.

           $r->route('/foo')->over(authenticated => 1)->to('mycontroller#foo');

           my $authenticated_only = $r->route('/members')
               ->over(authenticated => 1)
               ->to('members#index');

           $authenticated_only->route('online')->to('members#online');

       If someone is not authenticated, these routes will not be considered by the dispatcher and
       unless you have set up a catch-all route, a 404 Not Found will be generated instead.

       And another condition for fast and unsecured checking for users, having a signature
       (without validating it). This method just checks client cookies for uid data existing.

           $r->route('/foo')->over(signed => 1)->to('mycontroller#foo');

       This behavior is similar to the "authenticated" condition.

ROUTING VIA CALLBACK

       If you want to be able to send people to a login page, you will have to use the following:

           my $members_only = $r->route('/members')->to(cb => sub {
               my $self = shift;

               $self->redirect_to('/login') and return 0
                   unless($self->is_user_authenticated);

               return 1;
           });

           $members_only->route('online')->to('members#online');

       Lazy and unsecured methods:

           my $members_only = $r->route('/unimportant')->to(cb => sub {
               my $self = shift;

               $self->redirect_to('/login') and return 0
                   unless($self->signature_exists);

               return 1;
           });

           $members_only->route('pages')->to('unimportant#pages');

ROUTING VIA BRIDGE

       If you want to be able to send people to a login page, you will have to use the following:

           my $auth_bridge = $r->under('/members')->to('auth#check');
           # only visible to logged in users
           $auth_bridge->route('/list')->to('members#list');

       And in your Auth controller you would put:

           sub check {
               my $self = shift;

               $self->redirect_to('/login') and return 0
                   unless($self->is_user_authenticated);

               return 1;
           };

       Lazy and unsecured methods:

           sub check {
               my $self = shift;

               $self->redirect_to('/login') and return 0
                   unless($self->signature_exists);

               return 1;
           };

SEE ALSO

       Mojolicious::Sessions
       Mojocast 3: Authentication <http://mojocasts.com/e3#>

AUTHOR

       Ben van Staveren, "<madcat at cpan.org>"
       José Joaquín Atria, "<jjatria@cpan.org>"

BUGS / CONTRIBUTING

       Please report any bugs or feature requests through the web interface at
       <https://github.com/benvanstaveren/mojolicious-plugin-authentication/issues>.

SUPPORT

       You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

           perldoc Mojolicious::Plugin::Authentication

       You can also look for information at:

       •   AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation

           <http://annocpan.org/dist/Mojolicious-Plugin-Authentication>

       •   CPAN Ratings

           <http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Mojolicious-Plugin-Authentication>

       •   Search CPAN

           <http://search.cpan.org/dist/Mojolicious-Plugin-Authentication/>

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

       Andrew Parker
           -   For pointing out some bugs that crept in; a silent reminder not to
               code while sleepy

       Mirko Westermeier (memowe)
           -   For doing some (much needed) code cleanup

       Terrence Brannon (metaperl)
           -   Documentation patches

       Karpich Dmitry (meettya)
           -   "lazy_mode" and "signature_exists" functionality, including a test
               and documentation

       Ivo Welch
           -   For donating his first ever Mojolicious application that shows an
               example of how to use this module

       Ed Wildgoose (ewildgoose)
           -   Adding the "current_user()" functionality, as well as some method
               renaming to make things a bit more sane.

       Colin Cyr (SailingYYC)
           -   For reporting an issue with routing conditions; I really should not
               code while sleepy, brainfarts imminent!

       Carlos Ramos (carragom)
           -   For fixing the bug that'd consider an uid of 0 or "0" to be a problem

       Doug Bell (preaction)
           -   For improving the Travis CI integration and enabling arguments for
               current_user

       Roman F (moltar)
           -   For fixing some pesky typos in sample code

       Hernan Lopes (hernan604)
           -   For updating some deprecated method names in the documentation

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2011-2017 Ben van Staveren.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of
       either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or
       the Artistic License.

       See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.