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gRPC Go for Professionals

You're reading from   gRPC Go for Professionals Implement, test, and deploy production-grade microservices

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837638840
Length 260 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Clément Jean Clément Jean
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Networking Primer 2. Chapter 2: Protobuf Primer FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Introduction to gRPC 4. Chapter 4: Setting Up a Project 5. Chapter 5: Types of gRPC Endpoints 6. Chapter 6: Designing Effective APIs 7. Chapter 7: Out-of-the-Box Features 8. Chapter 8: More Essential Features 9. Chapter 9: Production-Grade APIs 10. Epilogue
11. Index 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Authenticating requests

In this section and the following, we are going to simplify the middleware that we currently have. First, we are going to start by simplifying the authentication process. We saw in the previous chapter that we can easily create an interceptor for checking an authentication token in headers. In this section, we are going to take a step further and make it even simpler.

Important note

gRPC supports retrying authentication of requests through an RBAC policy without a third-party library. However, the configuration is quite verbose and not very well documented. If you are interested in trying it, you can check the following example: https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/blob/master/examples/features/authz/README.md.

Previously, when we wrote our interceptors, we needed to create the following function for a unary interceptor:

func unaryAuthInterceptor(ctx context.Context, req
  interface{}, info *grpc.UnaryServerInfo, handler
   &...
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