Block non-admin users from posting

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Amarpreet Minhas 2020-01-21 22:19:35 -05:00
parent aa2731e789
commit 4457885685

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@ -78,6 +78,14 @@ func createBlogPost(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
newBlogPost := &NewBlogPost{}
// basic checks
_, claims, _ := jwtauth.FromContext(r.Context())
is_admin := claims["admin"].(bool)
if !is_admin {
returnError.Message = "sorry only admins are allowed to create blog posts"
w.WriteHeader(http.StatusUnauthorized)
render.JSON(w, r, returnError)
return
}
username := claims["username"].(string)
err := json.NewDecoder(r.Body).Decode(newBlogPost)
if err != nil {