Microservices with Clojure

Designing the interceptor chain and context

The interceptor chain must be defined for each microservice of the Helping Hands application separately. Each interceptor chain may consist of interceptors that authenticate the request, validate the data models, and apply the business logic. Interceptors can also be added to interact with the Persistence layer and to generate events as well. The list of probable interceptors that may be a part of Helping Hands services include:

• Auth: Used to authenticate and authorize requests received by the API endpoints exposed by the microservice.
• Validation (data model): Used to validate the request parameters and map the external data model with the internal data model as expected by the business logic and ...