JWT Token Generation

This section provides instructions on how to get the user claims of the authorized user as a JWT token with the validation response. 

Configurations

1. Open the <IS_HOME>/repository/conf/identity/identity.xml file and set the <Enabled> element (found under the <OAuth>,<AuthorizationContextTokenGeneration> elements) to true as seen in the code block below. 

   <AuthorizationContextTokenGeneration>
               <Enabled>true</Enabled>
               <TokenGeneratorImplClass>org.wso2.carbon.identity.oauth2.authcontext.JWTTokenGenerator</TokenGeneratorImplClass>
               <ClaimsRetrieverImplClass>org.wso2.carbon.identity.oauth2.authcontext.DefaultClaimsRetriever</ClaimsRetrieverImplClass>
               <ConsumerDialectURI>http://wso2.org/claims</ConsumerDialectURI>
               <SignatureAlgorithm>SHA256withRSA</SignatureAlgorithm>
               <AuthorizationContextTTL>15</AuthorizationContextTTL>
    </AuthorizationContextTokenGeneration> 

2. The following configurations are optional and can be configured as needed. 

   1. See the Extension Points for OAuth topic for more details about the usage of the 'TokenGeneratorImplClass' and 'ClaimsRetrieverImplClass'. 

   2. ConsumerDialectURI: Defines the URI for the claim dialect under which the user attributes need to be retrieved. 

   3. SignatureAlgorithm: Defines the algorithm to be used in signing the payload that carries user claims. If you want to disable signing of the JWT token, set this element to "NONE". 

      <SignatureAlgorithm>NONE</SignatureAlgorithm>

   4. AuthorizationContextTTL: Defines the expiry time for JWT token in minutes.

Calling the OAuth2ValidationService with a valid token

After configuring the elements mentioned above, see the OAuth2 Token Validation topic to call the OAuth2ValidationService. The following screenshot is the request and response of the OAuth2ValidationService from the SOAP UI. Additionally, it shows the required claims of the user as required claim URIs. In the response, you can see the recieved JWT token under the <tokenString> element. 

Header Metadata: 
The header contains the metadata for the token as seen below. 

Decoded Header: 

Decoded Payload:

{  
   "http:\/\/wso2.org\/gateway\/applicationname":"Oauth7",
   "exp":1452594892,
   "sub":"admin@carbon.super",
   "http:\/\/wso2.org\/gateway\/subscriber":"admin@carbon.super",
   "iss":"http:\/\/wso2.org\/gateway",
   "http:\/\/wso2.org\/gateway\/enduser":"admin@carbon.super",
   "http:\/\/wso2.org\/claims\/role":"admin,Application\/dewvdew,Application\/Oauth7,Internal\/everyone",
   "http:\/\/wso2.org\/claims\/emailaddress":"admin@wso2.com",
   "iat":1452593254,
   "http:\/\/wso2.org\/claims\/organization":"WSO2"
}

Signature Verification

The signature verification can be done similiar to the ID token signature verification. See the IDToken Signature Verification topic for more information.