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API Updates: Authentication, Error Handling & Documentation Improvements

What developments have taken place today?

Today’s work primarily focused on refining the API handler for user authentication and registration, enhancing error handling, and improving documentation through OpenAPI specification generation. Key changes include:

• Login & Registration API Updates: A new ApiHandlerRegistration struct was introduced alongside a NewApiHandlerRegistration constructor, enabling full-fledged user registration functionality with email validation and token creation. The /login endpoint now handles both login and authentication using the newly implemented token repository.
• Robust Error Handling: Significant improvements were made to error handling across multiple components. This involved defining new error types (PostLoginUnauthorized, PostRegistrationInternalServerError), implementing proper JSON encoding for these errors, and enhancing response handling in various handlers to provide more informative feedback to clients.
• OpenAPI Documentation Generation: The code now leverages the ogen tool to automatically generate OpenAPI specifications from Go source code. This streamlines API documentation maintenance and ensures consistency between the codebase and the API definition.
• Dependency Updates: Several dependencies were updated, including those related to error handling, JSON encoding, and cryptographic functions, improving security and functionality.

In essence, these changes collectively enhance the robustness, clarity, and maintainability of the user authentication and registration processes within the application, providing a more reliable and well-documented API for clients to interact with. The improvements in error handling are particularly important for ensuring stability and providing useful feedback to users.

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