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Set Security User Processor

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Set Security User Processor

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Sets user-related details (such as username, roles, email, full_name and metadata ) from the current authenticated user to the current document by pre-processing the ingest.

Requires an authenticated user for the index request.

Table 55. Set Security User Options

Name Required Default Description

field

yes

-

The field to store the user information into.

properties

no

[username, roles, email, full_name, metadata]

Controls what user related properties are added to the field.

if

no

-

Conditionally execute this processor.

on_failure

no

-

Handle failures for this processor. See Handling Failures in Pipelines.

ignore_failure

no

false

Ignore failures for this processor. See Handling Failures in Pipelines.

tag

no

-

An identifier for this processor. Useful for debugging and metrics.

The following example adds all user details for the current authenticated user to the user field for all documents that are processed by this pipeline:

{
  "processors" : [
    {
      "set_security_user": {
        "field": "user"
      }
    }
  ]
}
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