created by coming as "anonymous" in SAP CAP even after deployment

[Ahmedkhan29789]

Hello SAP CAP Experts,

I have created a simply cds table with managed and I want to get the created by and modified by fields, As SAP has given this inbuilt functionality using "manage", when i post the records into my table via an entity the createdby and modifiedby fields fills with value "anonymous".

My schma.cds file have this code

using { Currency, managed, cuid, sap} from '@sap/cds/common';
entity Promo: managed, cuid {

key ID : Integer; STATUS : String;

PROMOTION_TYPE : String;

key key WEEK : Date

}

In my service.cds i have it like this
entity Promotions as projection on PromService.Promotions;

What else I need to do to get the correct user in createdby and modifiedby fields?

[former_member227670]

Hi Ahmed,

the managed-aspect handler automatically fills the user column with the logon name of the business request user. Requests w/o authentication have "anonymous" as user name to indicate the public access. So if you configure authentication, you'll see the corresponding user names.

Br

Matthias

[Ahmedkhan29789]

Hi matthia.braun,

In my package.json, I have added these highlighted codes, even though it's not working, when I am sending the records via odata using my deployed Fiori application

[gregorw]

To get real users stored in the created by field you have you add Authentication.

[Ahmedkhan29789]

Hi Gregor,
I Checked this that I have added authentication as mentioned in the link you have shared, in my package.json, even though it's not working, when I am sending the records via odata using my deployed Fiori application

[MioYasutake]

You need below annotation either on service level or entity level to have your user authenticated.

@requires: 'authenticated-user'

example:

service CustomerService @(requires: 'authenticated-user'){
  ...
}

service CustomerService {
  entity Orders @(restrict: [ 
    { grant: ['READ','WRITE'], to: 'authenticated-user' },
  ]){/*...*/}
}

[Ahmedkhan29789]

Now i tried this, Locally the app is working but on deployment to cloud foundry its failing...

I thought managed service was provided by SAP to save developers time :D, I will try with some node js code to solve this or may be fetch user in frontend and fill it in a manual createdby field.