Getting Additional Data During Login

[Kelly]

Hello,

My goal is to return some data that is not stored in the Users content type when each user logs in.  Basically, I want to avoid a second round trip to retrieve settings information after a successful login, by just injecting the settings in the Cloud Code.

I tried adding fields to the response.additionalData in the afterRead event for my Users type.  But the info returned by everlive.Users.currentUser doesn't reflect the additionalData fields.

Is there a way to return additional data in the currentUser call?

Thank you,

Kelly

[Anton Dobrev]

Hi Kelly,

The el.Users.CurrentUser() function makes a getById call to the REST API. In the cloud code of the Users content type you can set up the following code for incoming requests by Id:

Everlive.Events.afterRead(function(request, response, context, done) {

  var isCheckSatisfied; // some additional check


  

  if(request.itemId && isCheckSatisfied) {

    response.result.userInfo = { "isReturningCustomer" : true };

  }

 

  done();

});

which will add the additional data to the result for the current user.

Using response.additionalData will work in all other content types.

Please, let us know if this works for you.

Regards,
Anton Dobrev
Telerik

 

 

[Kelly]

Thank you, Anton.  That worked perfectly.