trigataro / csharp-jwt-authentication-sample

A C# API and GUI that supports username and password authentication with JWTs

Csharp JWT Authentication sample

This is a Csharp Web API that supports username and password authentication with JWTs and has APIs that return user information to the GUI client and vice-versa.

Everything about the Csharp WEB API runs from the Api Directory.

The Desktop C# app runs from the WpfClient Directory.

Available APIs

User APIs

POST /users

You can do a POST to /users to create a new user.

{
  "username": "<username>",

  "firstname": "<firstname>",

  "middlename": "<middlename>",

  "lastname": "<lastname>",

  "age": <age>
}

The body must have:

• username: The username
• password: The password

It returns the following:

{

  "id": "<id>",

  "username": "<username>",

  "access_token": "<jwt>"
}

That JWT will contain the id, username and an expires indicating when the token will expire.

POST /users/login

You can do a POST to /users/login to log a user in.

The body must have:

• username: The username
• password: The password

It returns the following:

{

  "id": "<id>",

  "username": "<username>",

  "access_token": "<jwt>"
}

That JWT will contain the id, username and an expires indicating when the token will expire.

User API

GET /api/users/{id}

Where id is the Id of a user

It returns the complete user information

{
  "id": "<id>",
  "username": "<username>",

  "firstname": "<firstname>",

  "middlename": "<middlename>",

  "lastname": "<lastname>",

  "age": <age>
}

The JWT must be sent on the Authorization header as follows: Authorization: <jwt>

Running it

Just clone the repository, and launch the solution in Visual Studio. That's it :). This project was built using Visual Studio 2015.

Issue Reporting

If you have found a bug or if you have a feature request, please report them at this repository issues section.

Author

Prosper Otemuyiwa

License

This project is licensed under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.