I'm trying to create an authentication middleware in my Lambda, which basically injects a property user
in the ctx
struct, and call the handler function. How I'm doing:
middlewares/authentication.go:
package middlewares
import (
"context"
"github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go/events"
"github.com/passus/api/models"
)
func Authentication(next MiddlewareSignature) MiddlewareSignature {
user := models.User{}
return func(ctx context.Context, request events.APIGatewayProxyRequest) (events.APIGatewayProxyResponse, error) {
claims := request.RequestContext.Authorizer["claims"]
// Find user by claims properties.
if err := user.Current(claims); err != nil {
return events.APIGatewayProxyResponse{}, err
}
// Augment ctx with user property.
ctx = context.WithValue(ctx, "user", user)
return next(ctx, request)
}
}
my-lambda.go:
package main
import (
"context"
"fmt"
"github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go/events"
"github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go/lambda"
"github.com/passus/api/middlewares"
)
func Handler(ctx context.Context, request events.APIGatewayProxyRequest) (events.APIGatewayProxyResponse, error) {
fmt.Println(ctx.user)
return events.APIGatewayProxyResponse{}, nil
}
func main() {
lambda.Start(
middlewares.Authentication(Handler),
)
}
The problem with this approach is that: it doesn't work. I see the following error when I try to build it: create/main.go:13:17: ctx.user undefined (type context.Context has no field or method user)
Thank you in advance.
You cannot access values added to a context directly—you need to use the Value(key interface{}) interface{}
API.
This is because any value added to a Context
needs to be immutable in order to be thread safe. Any changes to existing values on a Context
, is accomplished by creating a new Context
.
This is the updated my-lambda.go
:
func Handler(ctx context.Context, request events.APIGatewayProxyRequest) (events.APIGatewayProxyResponse, error) {
fmt.Println(ctx.value("user").(models.User))
return events.APIGatewayProxyResponse{}, nil
}
Value returns an interface, so you need to use type assertion.
NB: the use of plain strings as keys on a Context is not recommended, as this could result in key collision.