Contextual information from interceptors to request handlers
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### Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
This might already be possible but I haven't found a way to do it. Please advice.
What I would like to do is to pass additional, per-request information from the interceptors to the request handers. For example, I've an auth interceptor which validates the authentication params and I would like to attach some information (e.g. the user id) that's latter consumed by the request handler.
### Describe the solution you'd like
A way to attach contextual information to requests.
### Describe alternatives you've considered
- I can think of moving some of the logic outside of the interceptor into another module/function and call that from the request handlers. While it would work, it's not as clean as adding the data I need in the interceptors.
- I could also whatever information I want to the request metadata. I don't like this one so much because the boundaries between client metadata and my metadata are blurred. ~~I could use a symbol to avoid clashes though~~ (can't pass a symbol as metadata keys must be strings). And metadata only allows buffers or strings as values and I'd like to be possible to pass an object.
### Additional context
This is possible in many other http api frameworks.
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