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Ankesh Kumar
Ankesh Kumar

Reputation: 525

Update object info for old post

I am sending user id(stored in our own DB) as actor while posting activity on getstream. In object field I am sending other info of user such as name/dob etc. which are in our database too.

Suppose some one updates the user info e.g. name in our application, the object will still have old information in the post. How can this scenario be handled in best possible way?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 159

Answers (1)

Matthisk
Matthisk

Reputation: 1521

All activities stored in Getstream are normalized, thus there is no way for you to update usernames stored within activities. Best practice is to not store data directly in the Getstream activity but store a reference to the data inside your own database (as you are doing right now for the actor field).

{
    "actor": "user:$USER_ID"
    "object": "post:$POST_ID"
}

Where $USER_ID is the id of the user in you local database and $POST_ID is the id of the post (this can be any sort of data e.g. comment, post, like) in your local database). You are also allowed to store extra (custom) fields on the Getstream API.

When you use one of Getstream's integration packages you get this functionality for free. You could have a look at these packages to see how they handle this.

Upvotes: 1

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