golem15.user

The shared front-end user plugin for SummerCMS applications: registration, login with JWT sessions, activation and password reset, profile and avatar endpoints.

import _ "git.golem15.com/golem15/sm-user-plugin"

Module git.golem15.com/golem15/sm-user-plugin, package user, plugin ID golem15.user.

Overview

The plugin is a compiled SummerCMS plugin. Its init registers it with the framework, so an application loads it by listing it in summer.yaml; summer build then emits the blank import above into the application's plugins.gen.go.

It owns the users table extensions, user_throttle, jwt_blacklist, golem15_user_organisations, user_groups and users_groups, and the JSON API under /_user/api/v1. It is a core plugin shared by several applications, so its routes, payloads, table names, migration IDs and config keys are a contract: change them only in a backwards-compatible way.

Features

• Registration and activation. POST /register, POST /activate, POST /activate-by-code. Registration can be switched off and throttled; activate_mode is auto, user (a mailed code) or admin, with codes from IssueActivationCode and VerifyActivationCode.
• JWT sessions. POST /login, GET /fetch, POST /refresh, POST /logout. Boot registers the jwt guard with the framework's bouncer.Registry and exposes it as the jwt.auth middleware for other plugins. Logged-out tokens go to the Postgres jwt_blacklist, which a background sweep prunes.
• Password reset and change. POST /forgot-password answers the same body for known and unknown addresses; POST /reset-password consumes a code from IssueResetCode. POST /change-password requires the current password.
• Must-change-password lock. The user:require-password-change console command flags an account. The flag rides on the authenticated principal (bouncer.Principal.MustChangePassword) for guards and other plugins to act on, and a successful POST /change-password clears it.
• Login throttling. Failed logins are counted per user and IP in user_throttle (CheckAndRecordLogin, RejectIfThrottled) and suspend the account for a configured time.
• Rate limiting. Every route runs behind the user-api bucket: 120 requests a minute per authenticated user, or per client IP for anonymous calls.
• Profile. POST /update, POST /marketing-consent, POST /avatar and POST /avatar/remove (the avatar is stored through the framework's attachment storage).
• Organisations. The Organisation model and the organisation_id and organisation_role user columns, as a foreign-key target for other plugins.
• User groups. The user_groups table (seeded with the guest and registered groups, as in PHP) and the users_groups membership pivot, the UserGroup model and the User.Groups relation, which is never serialized. UserGroupCodes and HasGroupCode let other plugins check membership server-side, for example a site-admin check on the group code admin. No route of this plugin reads or writes groups, and the user payload still answers "groups":[].
• Mail templates. Activation, reset and reactivation mails in Polish and English (golem15.user::mail.*, layout golem15.user::mail.layouts.user); the locale follows the user (ResolveMailLocale).
• Extension events. RegisterEvent fires after a user row is created; its Payload is a copy of the register input (extra keys a client sent included, password and password_confirmation never). GetApiArrayEvent lets other plugins merge keys into the user payload.
• Registration for other plugins. RegisterUser, FireRegisterEvent, IssueToken and APIArray are the steps POST /register runs, exported so another plugin (a first-run setup endpoint, for example) creates a user with the same validation, hashing, event, token and payload.
• OAuth providers. GET /oauth-providers lists configured social login providers (none yet: it returns an empty list).

Usage

Mount the plugin in an application as a git submodule at plugins/golem15/user:

git submodule add git@git.golem15.com:golem15/sm-user-plugin.git plugins/golem15/user

Add it to the application's go.work:

use (
	.
	./plugins/golem15/user
)

Require it in the application's go.mod with a local replace:

require git.golem15.com/golem15/sm-user-plugin v0.0.0

replace git.golem15.com/golem15/sm-user-plugin => ./plugins/golem15/user

List it in summer.yaml and run summer build:

module: git.golem15.com/golem15/acme
binary: acme
plugins:
  - id: golem15.user
    module: git.golem15.com/golem15/sm-user-plugin

The plugin's own go.mod replaces the framework with ../../../../summercms.go, so it expects the framework checkout next to the application checkout (<dir>/summercms.go and <dir>/acme/plugins/golem15/user).

Another plugin that needs the signed-in user puts its routes behind the jwt.auth middleware and imports git.golem15.com/golem15/sm-user-plugin/models or .../classes for the user model and helpers.

API reference

All routes are mounted under /_user/api/v1 with the throttle:user-api middleware.

Method and path	Handler
POST /login	controllers.Login
POST /logout	controllers.Logout
GET /fetch	controllers.Fetch
POST /refresh	controllers.Refresh
POST /register	controllers.Register
GET /oauth-providers	controllers.OAuthProviders
POST /forgot-password	controllers.ForgotPassword
POST /reset-password	controllers.ResetPassword
POST /activate	controllers.Activate
POST /activate-by-code	controllers.ActivateByCode
POST /update	controllers.Update
POST /change-password	controllers.ChangePassword
POST /marketing-consent	controllers.MarketingConsent
POST /avatar	controllers.UploadAvatar
POST /avatar/remove	controllers.RemoveAvatar

Packages:

• controllers: the route handlers above, plus the registration steps POST /register runs, for other plugins:
  • RegisterUser(ctx, app, db, fields, RegisterOptions) validates fields against the user model's rules, hashes the password with golem15.user.password.bcrypt_cost and creates the user on db (which may be a transaction). It returns the validation errors instead of writing a response and never modifies fields. RegisterOptions.Activate creates the account activated; RegisterOptions.IP records the client IP.
  • FireRegisterEvent(ctx, app, user, fields) fires RegisterEvent with Payload set to a copy of fields without password and password_confirmation, and returns the listeners' error (/register ignores it). Fire it after the user row is committed.
  • IssueToken(app, user, r) mints the session JWT as /register and /login do.
  • APIArray(ctx, app, user) builds the user payload, extended by GetApiArrayEvent listeners.
• classes: JWTSecret, GormUsers (the bouncer.UserProvider), LookupByEmail, UserGroupCodes and HasGroupCode, the activation and reset code helpers, the throttle helpers, mail locale helpers and the two events. RegisterEvent carries User and Payload map[string]any, a read-only copy of the register input without the password keys.
• models: User, Throttle, Organisation, UserGroup.
• updates: the gormigrate migrations, returned by updates.All().
• console: RequirePasswordChange, the user:require-password-change command.

Configuration

Defaults live in config/config.yaml and are merged under golem15.user.*. Any key can be overridden by an environment variable in the framework's SUMMER_ form.

Key	Default	Meaning
golem15.user.jwt.secret	""	HS256 signing secret. Required: boot fails while it is empty. Set it with SUMMER_GOLEM15__USER__JWT__SECRET; there is no production default.
golem15.user.jwt.ttl	60	Access token lifetime in minutes.
golem15.user.jwt.refresh_ttl	20160	Refresh window in minutes.
golem15.user.jwt.blacklist_grace	0	Grace period in seconds for a blacklisted token.
golem15.user.jwt.leeway	0	Clock leeway in seconds (declared for parity, not read yet).
golem15.user.jwt.blacklist_sweep_interval	10m	How often expired blacklist rows are deleted (a Go duration).
golem15.user.activation.require_activation	true	Whether a new account must be activated before login.
golem15.user.activation.activate_mode	auto	auto, user (mailed code) or admin.
golem15.user.activation.reset_ttl_minutes	60	Password reset code lifetime.
golem15.user.activation.activation_ttl_hours	72	Activation code lifetime.
golem15.user.registration.allow_registration	true	Whether POST /register accepts new accounts.
golem15.user.registration.use_register_throttle	true	Whether registration is limited to three accounts per IP an hour.
golem15.user.throttle.attempt_limit	5	Failed logins before suspension.
golem15.user.throttle.suspension_minutes	15	Suspension length.
golem15.user.throttle.use_throttle	true	Whether login throttling is on.
golem15.user.password.bcrypt_cost	10	bcrypt cost for new password hashes.
golem15.user.password.min_length	8	Minimum password length.

CLI commands

Command	Purpose
user:require-password-change <email>	Flag an account so its next session must set a new password.

Dependencies

• The SummerCMS framework, git.golem15.com/golem15/summercms (modules backpack, bonfire, bouncer, pact, party, surf and others).
• gormigrate, GORM, golang-jwt and gocloud.dev, as pinned in go.mod.
• testcontainers-go for the Postgres-backed tests.

Testing

go test -short ./...    # fast run, no Docker
go test ./...           # full run, starts Postgres with testcontainers (needs Docker)

TestRegisterCORSPath reads the host application's config/http.yaml, so run the tests inside an application checkout where the plugin is mounted at plugins/golem15/user.