Unable to save createdby and updatedby in spring boot 2.3.5

[kapilarora5988]

I am unable to save createdby and updatedby in spring boot neo4j in spring boot 2.3.5. i have annotated them with CreatedDate, CreatedBy, LastModifiedBy, LastModifiedDate and used spring data annotation of prepersist and preupdate but nothing is happening

[gerrit_meier]

Did you enable the auditing feature for Spring Data Neo4j?

docs.spring.io

Spring Data Neo4j - Reference Documentation

[kapilarora5988]

I did enable it @EnableNeo4JAuditing. I am using these annotations to update the createdby and updatedby while with the above auditing annotation it was updating the createdAt and updatedAt but not the by ones.

[gerrit_meier · Accepted solution]

Spring Data Neo4j does not support the JPA annotations for prepersist and preupdate. You would provide the username by implementing the AuditorAware interface:

class MyUserProvider implements AuditorAware<String> {

  public Optional<String> getCurrentAuditor() {
    return Optional.of("MyUserName");
  }
}

This also helps to separate the logic for auditing and user resolution from your domain model.

See https://docs.spring.io/spring-data/neo4j/docs/5.3.x/reference/html/#auditing.auditor-aware for more information.

[kapilarora5988]

Thanks @gerrit.meier it helped me more to be switching to neo4j.