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deandrehaijiel
deandrehaijiel

Reputation: 153

GetStream Additional User Properties

i am using stream sdk for my chat application. i am trying to add additional properties to further describe my user, however, there isn’t any documentation on how i could achieve that. any ideas? tia

“There are additional properties you can provide to further describe your users.” from https://getstream.io/chat/docs/flutter-dart/update_users/?language=dart

Upvotes: 0

Views: 245

Answers (2)

deandrehaijiel
deandrehaijiel

Reputation: 153

ive managed to retrieve the data with this

user?.extraData['designation'] as String

hope this will help anyone along the way

Upvotes: 0

imtoori
imtoori

Reputation: 600

You can add custom properties to user using the extraData property of the User class.

extradata is a Map<String, Object?>

Example:

final user = User(id: "john", extraData: {
  "name": "John Doe",
  "custom_property": 10,
});

client.updateUser(User); //to update the user in the backend

Upvotes: 0

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