Validating headers for specific endpoints with Plug

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Background

I have a simple Plug router that has some POST, PUT and GET endpoints. However, each endpoint needs to make a specific validation on the headers of the request. I don’t know how to achieve this with Plug.

Code

I have a very generic router that receives requests and redirects them to controllers:

defmodule Api do
  use Plug.Router

  alias Api.Controllers.{Product, NotFound, Ping}

  plug :match
  plug Plug.Logger
  plug :dispatch

  get "/ping",  do: Ping.process(conn)
  put "/product",    do: Product.process(conn)

  match _, do: NotFound.process(conn)
end

Issue

However, there is a step missing. I need for the /products endpoint to validate the headers. Namely the headers should have some specific fields set, for example, like the “conten-type” header or even a custom header like “bananas”.

This validation is NOT for all endpoints. What makes it worse is that each endpoint will make its own validations, for example, having a “bananas” header may be important for the “/products” endpoint, but the “/ping” endpoint doesn’t really care.

Research

I have read this article:

Which I believe was inspired in a post from this forum with the same name. However, this applies to all endpoints and is not specific.

Questions

  1. Is it possible to achieve what I am looking for with Plug? If so, how?