Authentication when Receiving Webooks

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Hello,

I am working on a way to receive webhooks from my POS provider. I have this working in concept but I am wondering if anybody can point me to a method by which I can validate a secret that will be provided to my POS provider to be in the JSON they send before proceeding with inserting the data into my database.

I used this: https://support.wix.com/en/article/corvid-exposing-a-site-api-with-http-functions

Ideally I would also map their JSON object to specific fields in the database since it includes a ton of information that I do not actually need.

So far I added this to my http-functions.js and it works:

import { created, serverError } from 'wix-http-functions';
import wixData from 'wix-data';

export function post_XXXX(request) {
 let options = {
 "headers": {
 "Content-Type": "application/json"
        }
    };
 // get the request body
 return request.body.json()
  .then( (body) => {
 // insert the item in a collection
 return wixData.insert("XXXXX", body);
    } )
        .then((results) => {
            options.body = {
 "inserted": results
            };
 return created(options);
        })
 // something went wrong
        .catch((error) => {
            options.body = {
 "error": error
            };
 return serverError(options);
        });
}

Appreciate any help you can provide.