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JSON Web Tokens (JWT) Extension for WireMock

Adds Handlebars helpers for generating JWT, claims and JWKS.

<dependency>
<groupId>org.wiremock.extensions</groupId>
<artifactId>wiremock-jwt-extension</artifactId>
<version>0.3.0</version>
</dependency>

Step 2: Register the extension with your server

Section titled “Step 2: Register the extension with your server”
new WireMockServer(wireMockConfig().extensions(JwtExtensionFactory.class));
wm.stubFor(
get(urlPathEqualTo("/.well-known/jwks.json"))
.willReturn(okJson("{{jwks}}").withTransformers("response-template")));
wm.stubFor(
get(urlPathEqualTo("/oauth/token"))
.willReturn(okJson("{{jwt}}").withTransformers("response-template")));

The jwt helper has a number of parameters you can use to customise the generated token.

You can customise expiry term either by setting the maxAge parameter e.g.

{{{jwt maxAge='12 days'}}}

or by setting an absolute expiry date e.g.

{{{jwt exp=(parseDate '2040-02-23T21:22:23Z')}}}

You can similarly set the nbf (not before) date:

{{{jwt nbf=(parseDate '2018-02-23T21:22:23Z')}}}

Standard claims can be set as follows.

Issuer:

{{{jwt iss='https://jwt-example.wiremockapi.cloud/'}}}

Audience:

{{{jwt aud='https://jwt-target.wiremockapi.cloud/'}}}

Subject:

{{{jwt sub='jonsmith'}}}

You can also set any custom claim you wish via named parameters e.g.

{{{jwt
isAdmin=true
quota=23
score=0.96
email='jonsmith@example.wiremockapi.cloud'
signupDate=(parseDate '2017-01-02T03:04:05Z')
}}}

You can also add list of claims

{{{jwt roles=(claims 'admin' 'user' 'billing')}}}

Or even nested objects

{{{jwt access=(claimsObject roles=(claims 'admin' 'user' 'billing'))}}}
{{jwt firstLevel=(claimsObject secondLevel=(claimsObject roles=(claims 'admin' 'user' 'billing')))}}

By setting the alg parameter, the token can be signed using the public/private key algorithm:

{{{jwt alg='RS256'}}}

For clients to be able to validate JWTs, they need to be able to retrieve either the shared secret or the public key, depending on the signing algorithm.

The keys used to sign tokens for a particular mock API can be retrieved via the settings admin API resource. To fetch these via curl, you can do the following:

curl http://localhost:8080/__admin/settings

This will return a JSON document like this, from which you can retrieve the any of the keys:

{
"settings": {
"extended": {
"jwt": {
"hs256Secret": "...",
"rs256PublicKeyId": "...",
"rs256PublicKey": "-----BEGIN RSA PUBLIC KEY-----\n...\n-----END RSA PUBLIC KEY-----\n",
"rs256PrivateKey": "-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----\n...\n-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----\n"
}
}
}
}

When using RS256 (public/private key) signing, it is common for clients to fetch the public key for verification via a JSON Web Key Set (JWKS) endpoint. You serve a JWKS from your mock API simply by adding a stub containing the following response body (with templating enabled):

{{{jwks}}}