Microservice Token Authentication and User Information Propagation Scheme
Design Approach
Upon successful login, generate a token using the userId and have the frontend store it.
When subsequent requests reach the gateway, create a filter to parse userId from the token and inject it into the request headers.
Once the request arrives at the target service, create an interceptor to extract userId from the headers, fet ...
Posted on Thu, 07 May 2026 05:44:52 +0000 by edwinlcy