Hello, team! I am working on POC for implementing...
# ory-selfhosting
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Hello, team! I am working on POC for implementing Kratos in GoLang for Identity Management alone with our own UI. I couldn't find any documents to self host kratos in GoLang. I have came across different examples using github.com/ory/client-go and github.com/ory/kratos-client-go. If someone can help me on this , it'ill be great help.
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I am working on a similar POC at the moment, we are using Go for our backend API, Kratos for managing user accounts and React for the UI, is there some specific information you are looking for?
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Thanks for the quick replay Nikolay. Yes,Exactly same i am looking into. Studied lot of documents regarding Ory Identity manager and got confused. 1. Should i use https://www.ory.sh/docs/kratos/sdk/go#operation/getVersion this methods or github.com/ory/kratos-client-go. 2. Got an example https://github.com/atreya2011/go-kratos-test but i couldn't find the documentation.
Or Can you please refer any documentation.
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There is a guide for Ory Network: https://www.ory.sh/docs/getting-started/integrate-auth/go The same APIs are available on self-hosted as well 😉
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@flat-accountant-3839 sorry for the late reply, but I was going to link the same doc that Patrik did - https://www.ory.sh/docs/getting-started/integrate-auth/go this is pretty much waht I followed to implement the backend middleware that authenticates request with some custom logic for our own use case obv
One change I did in the middleware is to handle the cookie or fallback to a session token if cookie is not present because we have different type of clients calling the backend (not just browsers); the rough version of the code is this:
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import kratos "<http://github.com/ory/kratos-client-go|github.com/ory/kratos-client-go>"

func NewSessionMiddleware(client *kratos.APIClient) gin.HandlerFunc {
	return func(c *gin.Context) {
		...
        authToken := c.Request.Header.Get("Authorization")

		cookie, err := c.Request.Cookie(<whatever cookie name you configured>)
		if err != nil && authToken == "" {
			c.Redirect(http.StatusMovedPermanently, "/login")
			c.Abort()
			return
		}

		sessionRequest := client.V0alpha2Api.ToSession(c.Request.Context())
		if cookie != nil {
			sessionRequest = sessionRequest.Cookie(cookie.String())
		} else {
			authToken = strings.Replace(authToken, "Bearer ", "", 1)
			sessionRequest = sessionRequest.XSessionToken(authToken)
		}

		session, _, err := sessionRequest.Execute()
		if err != nil {
			c.Redirect(http.StatusMovedPermanently, "/login")
			c.Abort()
			return
		}

		if !*session.Active {
			c.Redirect(http.StatusMovedPermanently, "/login")
			c.Abort()
			return
		}

		userData, ok := session.Identity.Traits.(map[string]interface{})
		if !ok {
			log.Printf("Cannot convert kratos session Identity traits to a map - %v\n", session.Identity.Traits)
			c.AbortWithStatusJSON(http.StatusInternalServerError, gin.H{"error": "Internal server error while processing session information."})
			return
		}
  
        ....
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https://github.com/atreya2011/go-kratos-test What kind of help are you looking for?
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@some-addition-86177 Thanks , will check and get back to you.