Simple authorization middleware for Vapor 3.

AuthMiddleware.swift

import Vapor
import SwifQL

class AuthMiddleware: Middleware {
    /// Use it on your router like this
    /// ```swift
    /// let protectedRoute = router.grouped(AuthMiddleware())
    /// ```
    func respond(to request: Request, chainingTo next: Responder) throws -> Future<Response> {
        return try request.requireToken().flatMap { try next.respond(to: $0) }
    }
}

extension Request {
    /// Parses token from headers
    fileprivate func requireToken() throws -> Future<Request> {
        let prefix = "Bearer "
        guard let _bearerToken = http.headers.firstValue(name: .authorization),
            _bearerToken.contains(prefix) else {
            throw Abort(.unauthorized, reason: "Invalid authorization token")
        }
        let token = _bearerToken.replacingOccurrences(of: prefix, with: "")
        return try checkToken(token: token).map {
            try self.putUserIntoHeaders($0)
        }
    }
}

extension Request {
    /// Checks if token exists in the database and retrieves a user
    fileprivate func checkToken(token: String) throws -> Future<User> {
        return SwifQL
            .select(User.table.*)
            .from(UserToken.table)
            .join(.inner, User.table, on: \User.id == \UserToken.userId)
            .where(\UserToken.token == token)
            .execute(on: self, as: .psql)
            .first(decoding: User.self)
            .unwrap(or: Abort(.unauthorized, reason: "Invalid auth credentials"))
    }
}

extension Request {
    fileprivate var headerAuthDataKey: String { return "_authData" }
    
    /// Puts a user model as a JSON string into headers (to retrieve it in the future)
    fileprivate func putUserIntoHeaders(_ user: User) throws -> Request {
        let encodedUserData = try JSONEncoder().encode(user)
        guard let jsonString = String(data:encodedUserData, encoding: .utf8) else {
            throw Abort(.internalServerError, reason: "Session encoding error")
        }
        http.headers.add(name: headerAuthDataKey, value: jsonString)
        return self
    }
}

extension Request {
    /// Call it to retrieve authorized user from request headers
    @discardableResult
    func authorizedUser() throws -> User {
        guard let json = http.headers[headerAuthDataKey].first,
            let data = json.data(using: .utf8) else {
            throw Abort(.unauthorized, reason: "Invalid auth credentials")
        }
        return try JSONDecoder().decode(User.self, from: data)
    }
}