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Hi everyone 🙂 when using the Ktor client for authentication, is it possible to decode the JWT token payload in the common module (using pure Kotlin)*?*

mbonnin

11/04/2020, 8:26 AM

Someone posted this super recently: https://discuss.kotlinlang.org/t/how-to-hadle-jwt-expiration-in-commonmain/19773

Looks like there's no mpp library yet so it's a good time to start one 🙂

Elka

11/04/2020, 9:02 AM

I had to write a expect/actual function that does base64 decoding and the rest was done in common

iOS

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// Based on the implementation at <https://github.com/auth0/JWTDecode.swift/>
actual fun decodeBase64(strEncoded: String): String {
    val base64 = strEncoded
            .replace("-", "+")
            .replace("_", "/")
    val padding: String by lazy {
        val length = base64.length
        val requiredLength = 4 * ceil(length / 4.0).roundToInt()
        val paddingLength = requiredLength - length
        "=".repeat(paddingLength)
    }
    return NSData.create(base64EncodedString = base64 + padding, options = NSDataBase64DecodingIgnoreUnknownCharacters)?.let {
        NSString.create(data = it, encoding = NSUTF8StringEncoding).toString()
    } ?: ""
}

Android implementation uses

android.util.Base64

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Mateusz Krawczuk

11/04/2020, 9:17 AM

You can try use https://korlibs.soywiz.com/korio/#base64

Elka

11/04/2020, 9:54 AM

I remember that I used base 64 conversion in one of the KorLibs, but it didn’t work in some cases