Authentication
Connect your real credential verifier to the handshake scope and give the connection a verified Principal.
Lily's authentication support is a single global identity middleware slot. It runs before 101, can resolve scoped services, and converts verification results into connection identity. JWT, an OIDC provider, or a session store is your application's integration.
Connect a real verifier#
The following example is for service/CLI clients that can send an Authorization header. SessionVerifier is an application-defined interface; declaring it alone does not configure authentication. Add its real implementation through DI registration and implement ServiceTrait. Interface registration uses #[service(interface = dyn SessionVerifier, lifetime = "Scoped")] or a suitable Singleton lifetime.
use std::sync::Arc;
use lilyrs::websocket::{AuthenticatedWebSocketIdentity, ExecutionCancellation, Extensions,
HeaderValue, Principal, WsAppBuilder, async_trait};
use lilyrs::websocket::middleware::{MiddlewareDescriptor, MiddlewareErrorCode, MiddlewareKind,
WebSocketIdentity, WebSocketIdentityMiddleware, WsHandshakeExchange,
WsHandshakeRejection, WsMiddlewareInitError};
#[derive(Clone)]
pub struct TenantId(pub String);
pub struct VerifiedSession {
pub principal: Principal,
pub tenant: TenantId,
pub expires_at: tokio::time::Instant,
}
// The application binds this interface to its real verifier through DI.
// This service owns signature, issuer/audience, expiry and session revocation checks.
#[async_trait]
pub trait SessionVerifier: Send + Sync {
async fn verify(&self, authorization: &str) -> Option<VerifiedSession>;
}
pub struct SessionIdentity;
fn unauthorized() -> WsHandshakeRejection {
WsHandshakeRejection::unauthorized(
MiddlewareErrorCode::new("AUTH_REQUIRED").expect("sabit kod"),
HeaderValue::from_static("Bearer"),
).expect("geçerli challenge")
}
fn unavailable() -> WsHandshakeRejection {
WsHandshakeRejection::try_new(503,
MiddlewareErrorCode::new("AUTH_UNAVAILABLE").expect("sabit kod"),
).expect("geçerli durum")
}
#[async_trait]
impl WebSocketIdentityMiddleware for SessionIdentity {
async fn new(_: Arc<Extensions>) -> Result<Self, WsMiddlewareInitError> { Ok(Self) }
fn descriptor(&self) -> MiddlewareDescriptor {
MiddlewareDescriptor::new("session_identity", MiddlewareKind::WebSocketHandshake)
}
async fn identify(&self, exchange: &mut WsHandshakeExchange,
cancellation: ExecutionCancellation) -> Result<WebSocketIdentity, WsHandshakeRejection>
{
let authorization = exchange.request().headers().get_custom_header("authorization")
.ok_or_else(unauthorized)?.to_owned();
let verifier = exchange.service::<dyn SessionVerifier>().await
.map_err(|_| unavailable())?;
let verified = tokio::select! {
biased;
_ = cancellation.cancelled() => return Err(unavailable()),
result = verifier.verify(&authorization) => result.ok_or_else(unauthorized)?,
};
let authenticated = AuthenticatedWebSocketIdentity::try_new(verified.principal)
.map_err(|_| unavailable())?.expires_at(verified.expires_at);
let mut identity = WebSocketIdentity::authenticated(authenticated);
identity.insert_connection_local(verified.tenant).map_err(|_| unavailable())?;
Ok(identity)
}
}
pub fn with_identity(builder: WsAppBuilder) -> WsAppBuilder {
builder.identity_middleware::<SessionIdentity>()
}Download the complete example.
Save it as src/identity.rs. Pass the builder through identity::with_identity(builder) or call .identity_middleware::<identity::SessionIdentity>(). Do not use both; there is one identity middleware per app.
Verification responsibilities#
The verifier enforces credential rules such as signature, issuer, audience, expiration, and session revocation. Create the Principal only after these checks. Parsing a header or reading a token's subject does not replace verification.
Missing/invalid credentials are rejected with 401, and an unavailable verifier with 503. The 401 carries a valid Bearer challenge. Internal provider error text is not copied to the public response. On cancellation, the example stops waiting for a new verification result; the real verifier must also define its own I/O ownership and cancellation contract.
What transfers to the connection?#
The verifier in the handshake scope does not transfer. The verified Principal, optional monotonic expiry, and owned TenantId do. Connection locals hold at most 32 typed values. PrincipalId is a nonempty exact identity of at most 256 UTF-8 bytes, with no surrounding whitespace or control characters.
If tenants share subject values, separate them through your namespace and recipient-key policy; Lily does not infer tenant semantics. Each message receives an immutable identity snapshot. Enforce role, scope, and object permissions through a guard.
Public namespaces and browsers#
When an app contains both public and private namespaces, identity middleware can branch on the exact namespace and return WebSocketIdentity::anonymous() for a public one. Required Principal extraction does not succeed on an anonymous connection; use Option<Principal> for deliberate optional access.
The browser constructor does not accept arbitrary Authorization headers. Follow the sessions/CSRF flow for browser login and cookie verification. Identity lifecycle explains refresh and expiry.
Sources for this page v0.1.0
This guide is based on the reviewed framework commit.