I switched my ns.<app>.middleware to [buddy.auth.backends.token :refer [jws-backend]] in line with https://funcool.github.io/buddy-auth/latest/api/buddy.auth.backends.token.html but I’m getting an error: “Could not locate buddy/auth/backends/tokens/jws__init.class or buddy/auth/backends/tokens/jws.clj on classpath”. Any ideas?

do you have the buddy-auth lib in your project.clj?

@eoliphant Just buddy but there are numerous references to budy.auth in the app’s middleware namespace.

yeah I think you need buddy-auth explicitly

for JWT stuff

If so why does this work: [buddy.auth.backends.session :refer [session-backend]], ie. the default?

hmm, not sure in my project

all of that

is in buddy-auth

session as well

@eoliphant Maybe buddy-auth is a dep.

crap this slack is over quota lol

Quota?

i pasted in a screenshot my dep tree with the transitive dependencies

buddy doens’t seem to include the auth backends

in any case, try adding i

explicitly for now

How can I get that library listing?

I’ll just check if it’s there.

ah nvm

i just deleted the explcit dependency

and it still resolves it

so looks like it’s something else

ah

nvm? Isn’t that for Node?

what does your code look like?

that namespace has a jws-backend function

but no plain jws

and i think it should be just ‘token’

[buddy.auth.backends.token :a ..

@eoliphant Then the buddy-auth docs are misleading: https://funcool.github.io/buddy-auth/latest/#signed-jwt

check your require

The buddy-auth code in Luminus seems to be totally different than what’s in the buddy-auth docs.

that’s buddy._sign_.jwt

Also referred to as jws

ah wait

Very confusing. I think the authors of buddy-auth could have made this a bit more beginner-friendly.

What hope does a newcomer to Clojure web development have trying to make sense of all this?

yeah i think their docs are a little out of date

well one sec let me make sure

This is a classic supporting argument for a Clojure web framework. I mean Luminus is great as far as it goes but it’s only a guide to curated libraries at best. “Web Development with Clojure”, as far as I can tell only has an OAuth example and doesn’t touch the Buddy stuff.

ah

ah wait

i misread

that stuff is there

jws is in backends.clj

can you paste in your require?

According to the buddy docs I can simply call (backends/jws {:secret “mysecret”}) but I can’t get it to work.

backends/jws shold be fine. based on your error you have backends.token/jws which doesn’t exists

Last I tried was: [buddy.auth.backends.token :refer [jws-backend]] . Combined with (let [backend (jws-backend {:secret “mysecret”})]

I’ve tried all permutations but I get the same error.

It’s always “Could not locate buddy/auth/backends/tokens/jws__init.class or buddy/auth/backends/tokens/jws.clj on classpath”

Even the error message doesn’t match what I specified, ie. backends.token not backends.tokens . Jeeeezus.

Thanks @eoliphant but I’ve wasted the best part of a week trying to untangle this knot in order to get my app off the ground. The Clojure community is just too wedded to its libraries-only philosophy so I’ll give Node a shot.

hey sorry was working through a form lib

issue i was having

hmm i’m using it in one of my services

is the let call the one that’s causing the problem?

;; requires
...
[buddy.auth.backends.token :refer [jwe-backend jws-backend]]
[buddy.sign.jwt :refer [encrypt sign]]
...
(def token-backend
  (jws-backend {:secret secret}))

(defn token [username role id]
  (let [claims {:user (keyword username)
                :role role
                :id id
                :exp (plus (now) (minutes 60))}]
    ;(encrypt claims secret {:alg :a256kw :enc :a128gcm})
    (sign claims secret)
    ))

well if you look at it again, gen a luminus project with the buddy-jwt option, and compare that config to yours. I think you may just have something mistyped somewhere

ag 'tokens' in my app folder returns nothing so I can’t fathom why the error keeps referring to “auth/backends/tokens”

is it usual for a single luminus repl to use over 1GB of ram?