How to decrypt a JWT, in java, which is encrypted with JWE when the encrypted token is present in form of String?

I have a token in String format such as:

eyJhbGciOiJSU0EtT0FFUCIsImVuYyI6IkExMjhHQ00ifQ.K52jFwAQJH-DxMhtaq7sg5tMuot_mT5dm1DR_01wj6ZUQQhJFO02vPI44W5nDjC5C_v4pW1UiJa3cwb5y2Rd9kSvb0ZxAqGX9c4Z4zouRU57729ML3V05UArUhck9ZvssfkDW1VclingL8LfagRUs2z95UkwhiZyaKpmrgqpKX8azQFGNLBvEjXnxxoDFZIYwHOno290HOpig3aUsDxhsioweiXbeLXxLeRsivaLwUWRUZfHRC_HGAo8KSF4gQZmeJtRgai5mz6qgbVkg7jPQyZFtM5_ul0UKHE2y0AtWm8IzDE_rbAV14OCRZJ6n38X5urVFFE5sdphdGsNlA.gjI_RIFWZXJwaO9R.oaE5a-z0N1MW9FBkhKeKeFa5e7hxVXOuANZsNmBYYT8G_xlXkMD0nz4fIaGtuWd3t9Xp-kufvvfD-xOnAs2SBX_Y1kYGPto4mibBjIrXQEjDsKyKwndxzrutN9csmFwqWhx1sLHMpJkgsnfLTi9yWBPKH5Krx23IhoDGoSfqOquuhxn0y0WkuqH1R3z-fluUs6sxx9qx6NFVS1NRQ-LVn9sWT5yx8m9AQ_ng8MBWz2BfBTV0tjliV74ogNDikNXTAkD9rsWFV0IX4IpA.sOLijuVySaKI-FYUaBywpg

Now I want to decrypt this String through some java library and ultimately want to access the payload. Anyone done this so far ?

Solution

You probably don't necessarily need a library:

String token = eyJ....;
String[] splitToken = JWTEncoded.split("\\.");

// splitToken[0] is the header, splitToken[1] is the payload and
// splitToken[2] is the signature
byte[] decodedBytes = Base64.decode(splitToken[1], Base64.URL_SAFE);

// You don't have to convert it to string but it really depends on what type
// data you expect
String payload = new String(decodedBytes, "UTF-8");

https://jwt.io has a nice little decrypter for you to test data

In regards to JWE the only library I could find is this and an example to unencrypted JWE tokens can be found at the bottom of this page.
Note: I haven't tested this library so I won't be of much use beyond this, but it seems fairly straight forward.