Hands-On Swift 5 Microservices Development

Setting up JWT verification

For this service to connect the right user to the order, we need to be able to identify who is sending the request. As we discussed in Chapter 7, Writing the User Service, we are using a JWT for identification. In this service, we simply need to verify the payload against its signature. Luckily, the provided packages will do that for us.

Thanks to the JWT packages we installed with the template, we do not need to do much here. For convenience, let's create a setup file just like we did in Chapter 7, Writing the User Service. Follow these steps:

1. Edit the .env file in the folder:

$ open .env

2. Open your jwks.json file, which should be saved in your folder above the project folder. It looks like this:

3. Copy the ...