Isolate base64 codec (#22)

* isolated all calls to encode base64 raw url encoding

claims.go

@@ -63,12 +63,20 @@ type Prefix struct {
 	nkeys.PrefixByte
 }
 
+func encodeToString(d []byte) string {
+	return base64.RawURLEncoding.EncodeToString(d)
+}
+
+func decodeString(s string) ([]byte, error) {
+	return base64.RawURLEncoding.DecodeString(s)
+}
+
 func serialize(v interface{}) (string, error) {
 	j, err := json.Marshal(v)
 	if err != nil {
 		return "", err
 	}
-	return base64.RawURLEncoding.EncodeToString(j), nil
+	return encodeToString(j), nil
 }
 
 func (c *ClaimsData) doEncode(header *Header, kp nkeys.KeyPair, claim Claims) (string, error) {
@@ -143,7 +151,7 @@ func (c *ClaimsData) doEncode(header *Header, kp nkeys.KeyPair, claim Claims) (s
 	if err != nil {
 		return "", err
 	}
-	eSig := base64.RawURLEncoding.EncodeToString(sig)
+	eSig := encodeToString(sig)
 	return fmt.Sprintf("%s.%s.%s", h, payload, eSig), nil
 }
 
@@ -173,7 +181,7 @@ func (c *ClaimsData) String(claim interface{}) string {
 }
 
 func parseClaims(s string, target Claims) error {
-	h, err := base64.RawURLEncoding.DecodeString(s)
+	h, err := decodeString(s)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
@@ -239,7 +247,7 @@ func Decode(token string, target Claims) error {
 		return err
 	}
 
-	sig, err := base64.RawURLEncoding.DecodeString(chunks[2])
+	sig, err := decodeString(chunks[2])
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}

decoder_test.go

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 package jwt
 
 import (
-	"encoding/base64"
 	"encoding/json"
 	"fmt"
 	"reflect"
@@ -299,15 +298,15 @@ func TestBadClaimsEncoding(t *testing.T) {
 }
 
 func TestBadHeaderJSON(t *testing.T) {
-	payload := base64.RawURLEncoding.EncodeToString([]byte("{foo: bar}"))
+	payload := encodeToString([]byte("{foo: bar}"))
 	_, err := parseHeaders(payload)
 	if err == nil {
 		t.Fatal("should have failed bad json")
 	}
 }
 
 func TestBadClaimsJSON(t *testing.T) {
-	payload := base64.RawURLEncoding.EncodeToString([]byte("{foo: bar}"))
+	payload := encodeToString([]byte("{foo: bar}"))
 	c := GenericClaims{}
 	err := parseClaims(payload, &c)
 	if err == nil {
@@ -376,3 +375,15 @@ func TestDoEncodeNilKeyPair(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("unexpected error on encode: %v", err)
 	}
 }
+
+// if this fails, the URL decoder was changed and JWTs will flap
+func TestUsingURLDecoder(t *testing.T) {
+	token := "eyJ0eXAiOiJqd3QiLCJhbGciOiJlZDI1NTE5In0.eyJqdGkiOiJGQ1lZRjJLR0EzQTZHTlZQR0pIVjNUSExYR1VZWkFUREZLV1JTT1czUUo1T0k3QlJST0ZRIiwiaWF0IjoxNTQzOTQzNjc1LCJpc3MiOiJBQ1NKWkhOWlI0QUFUVE1KNzdUV1JONUJHVUZFWFhUS0gzWEtGTldDRkFCVzJRWldOUTRDQkhRRSIsInN1YiI6IkFEVEFHWVZYRkpPRENRM0g0VUZQQU43R1dXWk1BVU9FTTJMMkRWQkFWVFdLM01TU0xUS1JUTzVGIiwidHlwZSI6ImFjdGl2YXRpb24iLCJuYXRzIjp7InN1YmplY3QiOiJmb28iLCJ0eXBlIjoic2VydmljZSJ9fQ.HCZTCF-7wolS3Wjx3swQWMkoDhoo_4gp9EsuM5diJfZrH8s6NTpO0iT7_fKZm7dNDeEoqjwU--3ebp8j-Mm_Aw"
+	ac, err := DecodeActivationClaims(token)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal("shouldn't have failed to decode", err)
+	}
+	if ac == nil {
+		t.Fatal("should have returned activation")
+	}
+}

header.go

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 package jwt
 
 import (
-	"encoding/base64"
 	"encoding/json"
 	"fmt"
 	"strings"
@@ -28,7 +27,7 @@ type Header struct {
 
 // Parses a header JWT token
 func parseHeaders(s string) (*Header, error) {
-	h, err := base64.RawURLEncoding.DecodeString(s)
+	h, err := decodeString(s)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}