🔐 AddHTTPBasicAuth

Adds HTTP Basic authentication credentials (username + password) to Composer's auth.json, used to access Composer repositories protected by Basic authentication.

When to use

Use when your private Composer repository is protected by HTTP Basic authentication (common with enterprise internal Nexus, Artifactory, or self-hosted repositories). Credentials are stored in the http-basic section of auth.json in username:password format.

Signature

func (c *Composer) AddHTTPBasicAuth(domain string, username string, password string) error

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
domain	string	Repository domain the authentication applies to
username	string	Basic authentication username
password	string	Basic authentication password

Return value

error: Returns the corresponding error message when reading or writing auth.json fails; nil on success.

Example

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"log"

	"github.com/scagogogo/composer-skills/pkg/composer"
)

func main() {
	comp, err := composer.New(composer.DefaultOptions())
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("init failed: %v", err)
	}

	// Add Basic auth for an internal repository
	if err := comp.AddHTTPBasicAuth("repo.intranet.com", "ci-user", "s3cret-pass"); err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("failed to add auth: %v", err)
	}

	fmt.Println("HTTP Basic auth written to auth.json")
}

Advanced

• Credentials are stored in the AuthConfig.HTTPBasic map returned by GetAuthConfig, with the value formatted as username:password.
• To remove credentials, use RemoveToken with type http-basic.
• Related methods: AddGitHubToken, AddGitLabToken, AddBearerToken.
• The auth.json file permission is 0600, written by SaveAuthConfig.