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Contributing

Have you found a security issue? Please work with project maintainers so that a new release may be coordinated with the vulnerability disclosure.

HOWTO

Thanks for taking the time to contribute! Every bit helps.

Before you get too deep in code, please file an issue to discuss the change. Here's a list of considerations for deciding whether AuthN should be changed:

  • Is it a bug? Bugs need fixing. Pull requests, please!
  • Is the change backwards compatible? Can it be?
  • Is it within AuthN's scope? See below.

CHANGELOG

Please include a short sentence about the change in CHANGELOG.md. This simplifies release management.

Include tests

Tests please!

Any service, API handler, lib package, or data interface method must have tests.

Tests should:

  • be colocated with the tested file using a _test.go suffix
  • prefer sub-tests over table tests (solve redundancy with test helpers)
  • use require.NoError during test case setup, and assert.NoError when testing outcomes

Scope

Yes

AuthN's scope of responsibility is currently:

  • passwords: verifying, storing, changing
  • sessions: creating, securing, revoking

Features such as account archiving, un/locking, and password expiration are all included in the above scope primarily because they provide the host application with the moderation controls needed to implement business logic rules that affect the login process. Features that are not in scope (see below) can usually still be implemented with these atomic moderation actions.

No

AuthN's scope does not include:

  • Delivering notifications to the end-user. AuthN only delivers webhooks.
  • Identifying multiple accounts. This responsibility deserves its own service/product.
  • Rendering user-facing HTML

Project Organization

Design

AuthN uses a services pattern to implement the business logic of RESTful route handlers.

  • app/
    • Configuration routines read from ENV variables to prepare the server.
    • Services encode AuthN's business logic and validations. Any meaningful work in a web request should be performed by a service object.
    • Data Access Objects (DAO) implement an interface for pluggable persistence backends
  • server/
    • The REST implementation of AuthN's HTTP server
    • Routes are responsible for invoking the correct handler
    • Handlers are responsible for translating HTTP requests into service commands, and translating service results back into HTTP responses.

Dependency Injection

  • The main package resolves an App struct with all configuration and DAOs.
  • Handlers are bound to an App struct and may access any config or DAO they need.
  • Services get their configuration and DAOs from handlers.

Error Handling

Errors are passed up from services to handlers. If an error is not recoverable, the handler should panic (fatal) or report (warning). Panics are handled in middleware that reports them to an outside service while generating a HTTP 500 error.