Configuring expiration of auth tokens
If we try and perform an API call on our now protected endpoints with a valid token obtained from logging in with the token in the header, we will get an unauthorized error. If we insert some print statements, we will get the following error when failing to decode the token:
missing required claim: exp
This implies that there is no field called exp in our JwToken struct. If we reference the jsonwebtoken documentation at https://docs.rs/jsonwebtoken/latest/jsonwebtoken/fn.encode.html, we can see that the encode instructions never mention exp:
use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
use jsonwebtoken::{encode, Algorithm, Header, EncodingKey};
#[derive(Debug, Serialize, Deserialize)]
struct Claims {
sub: String,
company: String
}
let my_claims = Claims {
sub: "b@b.com".to_owned(),
company: "ACME".to_owned()
};
// my_claims is a struct that...
