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Better Auth•2mo ago
ilya

Is there a way to customize userCreate function to populate additional field?

In my usecase I need to copy user.id value to another column userId or id_email upon user creation
2 Replies
daveycodez
daveycodez•2mo ago
This should be possible with API hooks from the docs
ilya
ilyaOP•2mo ago
Will run the built in userCreate first and then add an additional field in a second call or will it enrich the payload of the initial user create call? Anyone looking for a solution, here is how it's done 
  user: {
    modelName: 'UsersView',
    fields: {
      name: 'firstName',
      email: 'email',
      image: 'avatarUrl',
    },
    additionalFields: {
      userId: {
        type: 'string',
      },
      subscriptionStatus: {
        type: 'string',
      },
      primaryProvider: {
        type: 'string',
      },
    },
  },
  databaseHooks: {
    user: {
      create: {
        before: async (user) => {
          const userId = generateId(24);
          return {
            data: {
              ...user,
              id: userId,
              userId, // id alias
              subscriptionStatus: SubscriptionStatus.FREE,
              primaryProvider: IdentityProvider.email,
            },
          };
        },
      },
    },
  },
  user: {
    modelName: 'UsersView',
    fields: {
      name: 'firstName',
      email: 'email',
      image: 'avatarUrl',
    },
    additionalFields: {
      userId: {
        type: 'string',
      },
      subscriptionStatus: {
        type: 'string',
      },
      primaryProvider: {
        type: 'string',
      },
    },
  },
  databaseHooks: {
    user: {
      create: {
        before: async (user) => {
          const userId = generateId(24);
          return {
            data: {
              ...user,
              id: userId,
              userId, // id alias
              subscriptionStatus: SubscriptionStatus.FREE,
              primaryProvider: IdentityProvider.email,
            },
          };
        },
      },
    },
  },

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