metadata.go

// Copyright (c) The go-grpc-middleware Authors.
// Licensed under the Apache License 2.0.

package auth

import (
	"context"
	"strings"

	"google.golang.org/grpc/codes"
	"google.golang.org/grpc/metadata"
	"google.golang.org/grpc/status"
)

const (
	headerAuthorize = "authorization"
)

// AuthFromMD is a helper function for extracting the :authorization header from the gRPC metadata of the request.
//
// It expects the `:authorization` header to be of a certain scheme (e.g. `basic`, `bearer`), in a
// case-insensitive format (see rfc2617, sec 1.2). If no such authorization is found, or the token
// is of wrong scheme, an error with gRPC status `Unauthenticated` is returned.
func AuthFromMD(ctx context.Context, expectedScheme string) (string, error) {
	vals := metadata.ValueFromIncomingContext(ctx, headerAuthorize)
	if len(vals) == 0 {
		return "", status.Error(codes.Unauthenticated, "Request unauthenticated with "+expectedScheme)
	}
	scheme, token, found := strings.Cut(vals[0], " ")
	if !found {
		return "", status.Error(codes.Unauthenticated, "Bad authorization string")
	}
	if !strings.EqualFold(scheme, expectedScheme) {
		return "", status.Error(codes.Unauthenticated, "Request unauthenticated with "+expectedScheme)
	}
	return token, nil
}