JWTRefreshTokenBundle
The purpose of this bundle is manage refresh tokens with JWT (Json Web Tokens) in an easy way. This bundles uses LexikJWTAuthenticationBundle. Supports Doctrine ORM/ODM.
Prerequisites
This bundle requires PHP 7.4 or later and Symfony 3.4, 4.4, or 5.2+.
If you want to use this bundle with previous Symfony versions, please use 0.2.x releases.
Protip: Though the bundle doesn't force you to do so, it is highly recommended to use HTTPS.
Installation
Step 1: Download the Bundle
It's important you manually require either Doctrine's ORM or MongoDB ODM as well, these packages are not required automatically as you can choose between them. Failing to do so may trigger errors on installation
With Doctrine's ORM
composer require doctrine/orm doctrine/doctrine-bundle gesdinet/jwt-refresh-token-bundle
With Doctrine's MongoDB ODM
composer require doctrine/mongodb-odm-bundle gesdinet/jwt-refresh-token-bundle
or edit composer.json:
{
"require": {
"doctrine/doctrine-bundle": "^1.12 || ^2.0",
"doctrine/mongodb-odm-bundle": "^3.4 || ^4.0",
"doctrine/orm": "^2.7",
"gesdinet/jwt-refresh-token-bundle": "^1.0"
}
}
Alternatively, a custom persistence layer can be used.
For that purpose:
- provide an implementation of
Doctrine\Persistence\ObjectManager
- configure the bundle to use your object manager
Step 2: Enable the Bundle
Symfony Flex Application
For an application using Symfony Flex the bundle should be automatically registered, but if not you will need to add it to your config/bundles.php
file.
<?php
return [
//...
Gesdinet\JWTRefreshTokenBundle\GesdinetJWTRefreshTokenBundle::class => ['all' => true],
];
Symfony Standard Application
For an application based on the Symfony Standard structure, you will need to add the bundle to your AppKernel
class' registerBundles()
method.
<?php
use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Kernel;
class AppKernel extends Kernel
{
public function registerBundles()
{
$bundles = [
// ...
new Gesdinet\JWTRefreshTokenBundle\GesdinetJWTRefreshTokenBundle(),
];
}
}
Step 3 (Symfony 5.3+)
Define the refresh token route
Open your routing configuration file and add the following route to it:
# app/config/routing.yml or config/routes.yaml
gesdinet_jwt_refresh_token:
path: /api/token/refresh
# ...
Configure the authenticator
Add the below to your security configuration file:
# app/config/security.yml or config/packages/security.yaml
security:
enable_authenticator_manager: true
firewalls:
# put it before all your other firewall API entries
api_token_refresh:
pattern: ^/api/token/refresh
stateless: true
refresh_jwt: ~
# ...
access_control:
# ...
- { path: ^/api/token/refresh, roles: PUBLIC_ACCESS }
# ...
# ...
Step 3 (Symfony 5.2-)
Define the refresh token route
Open your routing configuration file and add the following route to it:
Symfony 3 Version:
# app/config/routing.yml
gesdinet_jwt_refresh_token:
path: /api/token/refresh
defaults: { _controller: gesdinet.jwtrefreshtoken:refresh }
# ...
Symfony 4 Version:
# config/routes.yaml
gesdinet_jwt_refresh_token:
path: /api/token/refresh
controller: gesdinet.jwtrefreshtoken::refresh
# ...
Configure the security firewall
Add the below to your security configuration file:
# app/config/security.yml or config/packages/security.yaml
security:
firewalls:
# put it before all your other firewall API entries
refresh:
pattern: ^/api/token/refresh
stateless: true
anonymous: true
# ...
access_control:
# ...
- { path: ^/api/token/refresh, roles: IS_AUTHENTICATED_ANONYMOUSLY }
# ...
# ...
Step 4: Update your database schema
With the next commands you will add the table to store your refresh tokens to your database
php bin/console doctrine:schema:update --force
# or make and run a migration:
php bin/console make:migration
php bin/console doctrine:migrations:migrate
Usage
The below configurations can be put in the following files, depending on the Symfony version you are running:
Symfony 3 Version: app/config/config.yml
Symfony 4 Version: config/packages/gesdinet_jwt_refresh_token.yaml
Token TTL
You can define the refresh token TTL, this value is set in seconds and defaults to 1 month. You can change this value adding this line to your config:
gesdinet_jwt_refresh_token:
ttl: 2592000
Update Token TTL
You can configure the bundle to refresh the TTL on a refresh token when it is used, by default this feature is disabled. You can change this value adding this line to your config:
gesdinet_jwt_refresh_token:
ttl_update: true
Config Firewall Name
NOTE This setting is deprecated and is not used with the refresh_jwt
authenticator
You can define Firewall name. Default value is api
. You can change this value adding this line to your config:
gesdinet_jwt_refresh_token:
firewall: api
Refresh Token Parameter Name
You can define the parameter name for the refresh token when it is read from the request, the default value is refresh_token
. You can change this value adding this line to your config:
gesdinet_jwt_refresh_token:
token_parameter_name: refreshToken
Set The User Provider
Symfony 5.3+
You can define a user provider to use for the authenticator its configuration:
# app/config/security.yml or config/packages/security.yaml
security:
firewalls:
api_token_refresh:
pattern: ^/api/token/refresh
stateless: true
refresh_jwt:
provider: user_provider_service_id
By default, when a user provider is not specified, then the user provider for the firewall is used instead.
Symfony 5.2-
NOTE This setting is deprecated and is not used with the refresh_jwt
authenticator
You can define your own user provider, by default the gesdinet.jwtrefreshtoken.user_provider
service is used. You can change this value by adding this line to your config:
gesdinet_jwt_refresh_token:
user_provider: user_provider_service_id
For example, if you are using FOSUserBundle, user_provider
must be set to fos_user.user_provider.username_email
.
For Doctrine ORM UserProvider, user_provider
must be set to security.user.provider.concrete.<your_user_provider_name_in_security_yaml>
.
For example, in your app/config/security.yml
or config/packages/security.yaml
:
security:
# ...
providers:
app_user_provider:
# ...
firewalls:
# ...
# ...
then your user_provider_service_id is security.user.provider.concrete.app_user_provider
.
Doctrine Manager Type
By default, this bundle sets the Doctrine Manager type to the ORM. If you want to use Doctrine's MongoDB ODM you have to change this value:
gesdinet_jwt_refresh_token:
manager_type: mongodb
Set The User Checker
Symfony 5.3+
You can define a user checker to use for the firewall as part of the firewall configuration:
# app/config/security.yml or config/packages/security.yaml
security:
firewalls:
api_token_refresh:
pattern: ^/api/token/refresh
stateless: true
user_checker: user_checker_service_id
refresh_jwt: ~
Symfony 5.2-
NOTE This setting is deprecated and is not used with the refresh_jwt
authenticator
You can define your own user checker, by default the security.user_checker
service is used. You can change this value by adding this line to your config:
gesdinet_jwt_refresh_token:
user_checker: user_checker_service_id
You will probably want to use a custom user provider along with your user checker to ensure that the checker receives the right type of user.
Single Use Tokens
You can configure the refresh token so it can only be consumed once. If set to true
and the refresh token is consumed, a new refresh token will be provided.
To enable this behavior add this line to your config:
gesdinet_jwt_refresh_token:
single_use: true
Configure refresh token in cookie
By default, the refresh token is returned in a JsonResponse. You can use the following configuration to set it in a HttpOnly cookie instead. The refresh token is automatically extracted from the cookie during refresh.
gesdinet_jwt_refresh_token:
cookie:
enabled: true
same_site: lax # default value
path: / # default value
domain: null # default value
http_only: true # default value
secure: true # default value
remove_token_from_body: true # default value
Use another entity for refresh tokens
You can define your own refresh token class on your project.
When using the Doctrine ORM, create a class extending Gesdinet\JWTRefreshTokenBundle\Entity\RefreshToken
in your application:
<?php
namespace App\Entity;
use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;
use Gesdinet\JWTRefreshTokenBundle\Entity\RefreshToken;
/**
* This class extends Gesdinet\JWTRefreshTokenBundle\Entity\RefreshToken to have another table name.
*
* @ORM\Table("jwt_refresh_token")
*/
class JwtRefreshToken extends RefreshToken
{
}
When using the Doctrine MongoDB ODM, create a class extending Gesdinet\JWTRefreshTokenBundle\Document\RefreshToken
in your application:
<?php
namespace App\Document;
use Doctrine\ODM\MongoDB\Mapping\Annotations as MongoDB;
use Gesdinet\JWTRefreshTokenBundle\Document\RefreshToken;
/**
* This class extends Gesdinet\JWTRefreshTokenBundle\Document\RefreshToken to have another collection name.
*
* @MongoDB\Document(collection="jwt_refresh_token")
*/
class JwtRefreshToken extends RefreshToken
{
}
Then declare this class adding this line to your config.yml file:
gesdinet_jwt_refresh_token:
refresh_token_class: App\Entity\JwtRefreshToken
Use another object manager
You can configure the bundle to use any object manager, just add this line to your config.yml file:
gesdinet_jwt_refresh_token:
object_manager: my.specific.entity_manager.id
Disable automatic Doctrine mappings
NOTE This setting is deprecated and is no longer used
On some occasions, you may not want to have default Doctrine mappings of object manager enabled as you use neither ORM nor ODM but i.e. using DoctrineBundle for DBAL.
To disable dynamic Doctrine mapping add this line to your config:
gesdinet_jwt_refresh_token:
doctrine_mappings: false
Generating Tokens
When you authenticate through /api/login_check with user/password credentials, LexikJWTAuthenticationBundle now returns a JWT Token and a Refresh Token data.
{
"token": "eyxxxGciOiJSUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXUyJ9.eyJleHAiOjE0NDI0MDM3NTgsImVtYWlsIjoid2VibWFzdGVyQGdlc2RpbmV0LmNvbSIsImlhdCI6IjE0NDI0MDM3MzgifQ.bo5pre_v0moCXVOZOj-s85gVnBLzdSdsltPn3XrkmJaE8eaBo_zcU2pnjs4dUc9hhwNZK8PL6SmSNcQuTUj4OMK7sUDfXr62a05Ds-UgQP8B2Kpc-ZOmSts_vhgo6xJNCy8Oub9-pRA_78WzUUxt294w0IArrNlgQAGewk65RSMThOif9G6L7HzBM4ajFZ-kMDypz2zVQea1kry-m-XXKNDbERCSHnMeV3rANN48SX645_WEvwaHy0agChR4hTnThzLof2bShA7j7HmnSPpODxQszS5ZBHdMgTvYhlcWJmwYswCWCTPl3lsqVq_UOFI5_4arpSNlUwZsichqxXVAHX5idZqCWtoaqAbvNQe2IpinYajoXw-MlYKvcN2TLUF_8sy529olLUagf4FCpCO6JFxovv0E7ll9tUOVvx9LlannqV8976q5XCOoXszKonZSH7DhsBlW5Emjv7PailbARZ-hfl4YlamyY2QbnxAswYycfoxqJxbbIKYGA8dlebdvMyC7m9VATnasTuKeEKS3mP5iyDgWALBHNYXm1FM-12zHBdN3PbOgxmy_OBGvk05thYFEf2WVmyedtFHy4TGlI0-otUTAf2swQAXWhKtkLWzokWWF7l5iNzam1kkEgql5EOztXHDZpmdKVHWBVNvN3J5ivPjjJBm6sGusf-radcw",
"refresh_token": "xxx00a7a9e970f9bbe076e05743e00648908c38366c551a8cdf524ba424fc3e520988f6320a54989bbe85931ffe1bfcc63e33fd8b45d58564039943bfbd8dxxx"
}
The refresh token is persisted as a RefreshTokenInterface
object. After that, when your JWT valid token expires, if you want to get a new one you can proceed in two ways:
- Send you user credentials again to /api/login_check. This generates another JWT with another Refresh Token.
- Ask to renew valid JWT with our refresh token. Make a POST call to /api/token/refresh url with refresh token as payload. In this way, you can always get a valid JWT without asking for user credentials. But you must check if the refresh token is still valid. Your refresh token will not change but its TTL will increase.
Note that when a refresh token is consumed and the config option single_use
is set to true
the token will no longer be valid.
curl -X POST -d refresh_token="xxxx4b54b0076d2fcc5a51a6e60c0fb83b0bc90b47e2c886accb70850795fb311973c9d101fa0111f12eec739db063ec09d7dd79331e3148f5fc6e9cb362xxxx" 'http://xxxx/token/refresh'
This call returns a new valid JWT token renewing valid datetime of your refresh token.
Useful Commands
We give you two commands to manage tokens.
Revoke all invalid tokens
If you want to revoke all invalid (datetime expired) refresh tokens you can execute:
php bin/console gesdinet:jwt:clear
The command optionally accepts a date argument which will delete all tokens older than the given time. This can be any value that can be parsed by the DateTime
class.
php bin/console gesdinet:jwt:clear 2015-08-08
We recommend executing this command as a cronjob to remove invalid refresh tokens on an interval.
Revoke a token
If you want to revoke a single token you can use this command:
php bin/console gesdinet:jwt:revoke TOKEN
Events
If you want to do something when token is refreshed you can listen for gesdinet.refresh_token
event.
For example:
<?php
namespace App\EventListener;
use Gesdinet\JWTRefreshTokenBundle\Event\RefreshEvent;
use Psr\Log\LoggerInterface;
use Symfony\Component\EventDispatcher\EventSubscriberInterface;
class LogListener implements EventSubscriberInterface
{
private $logger;
public function __construct(LoggerInterface $logger)
{
$this->logger = $logger;
}
public function log(RefreshEvent $event)
{
$refreshToken = $event->getRefreshToken()->getRefreshToken();
$user = $event->getToken()->getUser()->getUsername();
$this->logger->debug(sprintf('User "%s" has refreshed it\'s JWT token with refresh token "%s".', $user, $refreshToken));
}
public static function getSubscribedEvents()
{
return array(
'gesdinet.refresh_token' => 'log',
);
}
}
Token Extractor
The bundle provides a Gesdinet\JWTRefreshTokenBundle\Request\Extractor\ExtractorInterface
to define classes which can read the refresh token from the request.
By default, the Gesdinet\JWTRefreshTokenBundle\Request\Extractor\ChainExtractor
is used which allows checking multiple aspects of the request for a token. The first token found will be used.
You can create a custom extractor by adding a class to your application implementing the interface. For example, to add an extractor checking for a "X-Refresh-Token" header:
<?php
namespace App\Request\Extractor;
use Gesdinet\JWTRefreshTokenBundle\Request\Extractor\ExtractorInterface;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;
final class HeaderExtractor implements ExtractorInterface
{
public function getRefreshToken(Request $request, string $parameter): ?string
{
return $request->headers->get('X-Refresh-Token');
}
}
This bundle handles automatically configuring ExtractorInterface
objects and will automatically set the gesdinet_jwt_refresh_token.request_extractor
container tag when your application uses autoconfiguration (autoconfigure: true
in your services.yaml
file). If autoconfiguration is not in use, you will need to manually configure the tag:
services:
App\Request\Extractor\HeaderExtractor:
tags:
- { name: gesdinet_jwt_refresh_token.request_extractor }
Prioritizing Extractors
The gesdinet_jwt_refresh_token.request_extractor
container tag supports prioritizing extractors, you can use this to set the preferred order for your extractors by adding a priority
attribute. The higher the number, the sooner the extractor will be run.
services:
App\Request\Extractor\HeaderExtractor:
tags:
- { name: gesdinet_jwt_refresh_token.request_extractor, priority: 25 }