How to save a session in golang - session

Question

I'm trying to save a logged user ID in my golang backend with gorilla sessions and securecookie.
Here is my package session :
package session
import (
"fmt"
"net/http"
"github.com/gorilla/securecookie"
"github.com/gorilla/sessions"
)
var store = sessions.NewCookieStore(securecookie.GenerateRandomKey(32))
//GetSessionLoggedID returns loggedID
func GetSessionLoggedID(r *http.Request) int {
storeAuth, _ := store.Get(r, "authentication")
if auth, ok := storeAuth.Values["loggedID"].(bool); ok && auth {
return storeAuth.Values["loggedID"].(int)
}
fmt.Println("none found")
return 0
}
//SetSessionLoggedID sets cookie session user ID
func SetSessionLoggedID(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, id int) {
storeAuth, err := store.Get(r, "authentication")
if err != nil {
fmt.Println(err.Error())
}
storeAuth.Options = &sessions.Options{HttpOnly: true, Secure: true, MaxAge: 2628000, Path: "/"}
storeAuth.Values["loggedID"] = id
storeAuth.Save(r, w)
}
I have another package that gets to verify email / password of a user that logs in.
Here is the function :
func (handler *UserHandler) checkPassword(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
var body struct {
Email string
Password string
}
err := json.NewDecoder(r.Body).Decode(&body)
if err != nil {
http.Error(w, err.Error(), http.StatusInternalServerError)
return
}
loggedID, err := handler.UserUsecase.PasswordMatch(body.Email, body.Password)
if err != nil || loggedID == 0 {
http.Error(w, "Could not authenticate user", http.StatusUnauthorized)
return
}
session.SetSessionLoggedID(w, r, loggedID)
json.NewEncoder(w).Encode(struct {
ID int `json:"id"`
}{loggedID})
}
The ID returned is the proper one. But the session is not saving as I would have liked.
If I add a session.GetSessionLoggedID(r) at the end of checkpassword function, I get "none found".
What am I missing ?

Answer 1

// watch this line
if auth, ok := storeAuth.Values["loggedID"].(bool); ok && auth {
storeAuth.Values["loggedID"] is not bool, so ok is false, then you get "none found"
Change to
if auth, ok := storeAuth.Values["loggedID"]; ok{
return auth.(int)
}
fmt.Println("none found")