In NestJS, how to get execution context or request instance in custom method decorator?

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I have a custom method decorator like this.

export function CustomDecorator() {

    return applyDecorators(
        UseGuards(JwtAuthGuard)
    );
}

Inside the Custom Decorator, I want to get the Request Header but not sure how to get the Request Instance?

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You won't be able to get the ExectuionContext object or the Request object in a class or method decorator, because these decorators are run immediately at the moment of import. What should be done instead is to make a SuperGuard that does have the ExecutionContext available to it. This SuperGuard should have all of the other guards injected into it via the constructor and depending on the header you should call/return the result from the guard called. Something like this:

@Injectable()
export class SuperGuard implements CanActivate {
  constructor(
    private readonly jwtAuthGuard: JwtAuthGuard,
    private readonly googleAuthGuard: GoogleAuthGuard,
  ) {}

  canActivate(context: ExecutionContext) {
    const req = context.switchToHttp().getRequest();
    if (req.headers['whatever'] === 'google') {
      return this.googleAuthGuard.canActivate(context);
    } else {
      return this.jwtAuthGuard.canActivate(context);
    }
  }
}
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