forgejo/routers/common
Mathieu Fenniak 1ddd5faa5c refactor: change authentication to return structured data (#12202)
Currently authentication methods return information in two forms: they return who was authenticated as a `*user_model.User`, and then they insert key-values into `ctx.Data` which has critical impact on how the authenticated request is treated.  This PR changes the authentication methods to return structured data in the form of an `AuthenticationResult`, with all the key-value information in `ctx.Data` being moved into methods on the `AuthenticationResult` interface.

Authentication workflows in Forgejo are a real mess.  This is the first step in trying to clean it up and make the code predictable and reasonable, and is both follow-up work that was identified from the repo-specific access tokens (where the `"ApiTokenReducer"` key-value was added), and is pre-requisite work to future JWT enhancements that are [being discussed](https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues/3571#issuecomment-13268004).

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### Tests for Go changes

- I added test coverage for Go changes...
  - [ ] in their respective `*_test.go` for unit tests.
  - [ ] in the `tests/integration` directory if it involves interactions with a live Forgejo server.
  - All changes, at least in theory, are refactors of existing logic and are not expected to have functional deviations -- existing regression tests are the only planned testing.
- I ran...
  - [x] `make pr-go` before pushing

### Documentation

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- [x] I did not document these changes and I do not expect someone else to do it.

### Release notes

- [ ] This change will be noticed by a Forgejo user or admin (feature, bug fix, performance, etc.). I suggest to include a release note for this change.
- [x] This change is not visible to a Forgejo user or admin (refactor, dependency upgrade, etc.). I think there is no need to add a release note for this change.

Reviewed-on: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/pulls/12202
Reviewed-by: Andreas Ahlenstorf <aahlenst@noreply.codeberg.org>
2026-04-22 21:00:26 +02:00
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auth.go refactor: change authentication to return structured data (#12202) 2026-04-22 21:00:26 +02:00
compare.go chore: branding import path (#7337) 2025-03-27 19:40:14 +00:00
db.go chore: rename 'migrations' to 'gitea_migrations' 2025-10-14 14:40:49 -06:00
errpage.go chore: move template context (#8663) 2025-07-25 11:55:15 +02:00
errpage_test.go chore: branding import path (#7337) 2025-03-27 19:40:14 +00:00
markup.go feat: match on compound filename extensions (#11439) 2026-03-19 01:25:51 +01:00
middleware.go Improvement: Do not set session cookie for empty session 2026-03-11 04:18:06 +01:00
middleware_test.go chore: branding import path (#7337) 2025-03-27 19:40:14 +00:00
redirect.go chore: branding import path (#7337) 2025-03-27 19:40:14 +00:00
search.go chore: fix typos throughout the codebase (#10753) 2026-01-26 22:57:33 +01:00
serve.go chore: branding import path (#7337) 2025-03-27 19:40:14 +00:00