Java Question
Auth0 JWT java library throws error random times
We are using auth0 java library for JWT generation and validation. The problem is it throws exceptions for the same string at random times. I am not exactly sure what is causing this issue. Below is my code-
final static String secret = "some random key";
final static JWTSigner signer = new JWTSigner(secret);
final static JWTVerifier verifier = new JWTVerifier(secret);
public String gen(UUID id) {
final long iat = System.currentTimeMillis() / 1000l; // issued at claim
final HashMap<String, Object> claims = new HashMap<String, Object>();
claims.put("id", id.toString());
claims.put("iat", iat);
final String jwt = signer.sign(claims);
return jwt;
}
/** This method checks Bearer <jwt> and <jwt> both type of tokens */
protected UUID authenticate(String jwt) {
UUID userId = null;
try {
try { // Getting the token
String[] ar = jwt.split(Constants.WHITE_SPACE);
final Map<String, Object> claims = verifier.verify(ar[1].trim());
userId = UUID.fromString((String) claims.get("id"));
} catch (ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException aie) {
final Map<String, Object> claims = verifier.verify(jwt.trim());
userId = UUID.fromString((String) claims.get("id"));
}
return userId;
} catch (Exception e) {
log.debug("Not a valid JWT string:" + jwt, e);
return null;
}
}
It works sometimes, and sometimes it throws random errors. Like
Not a valid JWT string:Bearer eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpYXQiOjE0NzM4NTE5NjQsImlkIjoiMmMwMTBiNTAtODhiNC00NWMxLWI4OGItOGY2ZDNmMzFkZjdlIn0.CHRsJxuTZe7y1VQikP9a0_-nWVA-TMundam506VTGx4
com.auth0.jwt.internal.com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonParseException: Unexpected close marker ']': expected '}' (for ROOT starting at [Source: java.io.StringReader@11c289a2; line: 1, column: 0])
at [Source: java.io.StringReader@11c289a2; line: 1, column: 2]
Not a valid JWT string:Bearer eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpYXQiOjE0NzM4NTE5NjQsImlkIjoiMmMwMTBiNTAtODhiNC00NWMxLWI4OGItOGY2ZDNmMzFkZjdlIn0.CHRsJxuTZe7y1VQikP9a0_-nWVA-TMundam506VTGx4
com.auth0.jwt.internal.com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonMappingException: Can not deserialize instance of java.util.LinkedHashMap out of VALUE_NUMBER_INT token
at [Source: N/A; line: -1, column: -1]
Are we missing something? Please help.
Answer
After a lot of struggle, we switched to another library and so far we didn't face any issue.
<!-- JWT -->
<dependency>
<groupId>io.jsonwebtoken</groupId>
<artifactId>jjwt</artifactId>
<version>0.7.0</version>
</dependency>
Source (Stackoverflow)