package main import ( "fmt" "time" jwt "github.com/dgrijalva/jwt-go" ) const ( signingKey = "this is the secret signing key" ) var createdToken string func initializeToken() { var err error createdToken, err = newToken() if err != nil { fmt.Println("Creating token failed") } } func newToken() (string, error) { signingKeyB := []byte(signingKey) // Create the token token := jwt.New(jwt.SigningMethodHS256) // Set some claims claims := make(jwt.MapClaims) claims["foo"] = "bar" claims["exp"] = time.Now().Add(time.Hour * 72).Unix() token.Claims = claims // Sign and get the complete encoded token as a string tokenString, err := token.SignedString(signingKeyB) return tokenString, err } func parseToken(myToken string, myKey string) { token, err := jwt.Parse(myToken, func(token *jwt.Token) (interface{}, error) { return []byte(myKey), nil }) if err == nil && token.Valid { fmt.Println("Your token is valid. I like your style.") } else { fmt.Println("This token is terrible! I cannot accept this.") } }