Urgent: Pass data from filters to controllers

Hello,
I'm creating a restapi using jwt authentication.
I'm decoding Jwt hashes in my auth filter like that:

PHP Code:

    public function before(RequestInterface $request, $arguments = null)
    {
        $header = $_SERVER['HTTP_AUTHORIZATION'];
        $token = null;

        $response = Services::response();
        $response->setJSON(['success' => false]);
        $response->setStatusCode(401);

        if (empty($header)) {
            return $response;
        }

        preg_match('/Bearer\s(\S+)/', $header, $matches);
        $token = $matches[1];

        if (is_null($token) || empty($token)) {
            return $response;
        }

        $key = getenv('JWT_SECRET');
        try {
            $user_id = JWT::decode($token, new Key($key, 'HS256'));
        } catch (\Exception $ex) {
            return $response;
        }
    } 


And the goal is to pass $user_id variable from the filter to the controller 

What is the best way to do it?

Create a Constant.

It seems better to set the user_id to Request object, but there is no good way to do so.

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It seems better to set the user_id to Request object, but there is no good way to do so.

yes what i did as i didn't found other solution!