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UserId from jwt token or form data?

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I have endpoint to create new tag item, and each item has userId that creates it. My question is should I send userId in body on client or can I use userId from jwt token that I send along with request? Which way is more common?
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I would do it with the jwt token. Like this you are way more flexible: you can verify it, trust the payload, get data, ...
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I would do it with the jwt token. Like this you are way more flexible: you can verify it, trust the payload, get data, ...
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