Questions about JsonWebTokenHandler

Re. https://github.com/AzureAD/azure-activedirectory-identitymodel-extensions-for-dotnet/blob/dev/src/Microsoft.IdentityModel.JsonWebTokens/JsonWebTokenHandler.cs

1. Is this what you would recommend for creating and consuming JWTs in .NET Core (over previous implementations)?
2. Where is the sample code?
3. Where is the formal documentation?
4. Is it necessarily tied to Azure? Or ActiveDirectory? Can it be used (say) by a .NET Core 3.1 console app?

From spelunking around the web, it would seem that JsonWebTokenHandler was introduced in 2018 but not many people know about it and there’s precious little information about it out there.

E.g. this article from January of this year only shows how to use JwtSecurityTokenHandler. Ditto for many others.

Time to bring JsonWebTokenHandler into the limelight?

[Bellarmine-Head]

I have looked in vain (google search) for proper documentation on JsonWebTokenHandler. I’m not sure if it’s bundled in the ASP.NET Core version that’s included with .NET 5. I’m not even sure what package or what namespace it’s supposed to live under in the .NET 5 world. I continue to use https://www.chilkatsoft.com/refdoc/csJwtRef.html until the situation becomes clearer, and the documentation is fully there.

[udlose]

@brentschmaltz Any update on official MSDN documentation here? I’m still trying to figure out why there’s no WriteToken on JsonWebTokenHandler. I see the ReadToken, but how do I write one to a string?