Hello,
I have created an Elixir library that checks the validity of a JWT token, but to do that the lib will fetch the public key from a remote server (the url of the remote server is stored as an env variable in the consumer application - config.exs because we can’t store vars in the lib).
My question is : how can I improve the process by storing the public key somewhere (avoid storing them in consumer applications ?), instead of fetching the key for every request.
Thanks
It depends a little bit on your use case.
If there is only a single public key you might need, i.e. it is a global value for the whole application, then you could use Application.put_env/Application.get_env.
If however you want to handle multiple values, like one per user in an application that might serve multiple users at the same time, then you probably want to use a caching library instead.
There are some great caching libraries which you could use on HexPM, the most well-known one probably being cachex, though there are many.
If you want to build something yourself, you might start with an Agent to store some common state in. (If speed ever becomes a problem, you could move on to :ets instead). But a caching library probably suffices.
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