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Set Security User Processoredit

Sets user-related details (such as username, roles, email, full_name, metadata, api_key, realm and authentication_type) from the current authenticated user to the current document by pre-processing the ingest. The api_key property exists only if the user authenticates with an API key. It is an object containing the id and name fields of the API key. The realm property is also an object with two fields, name and type. When using API key authentication, the realm property refers to the realm from which the API key is created. The authentication_type property is a string that can take value from REALM, API_KEY, TOKEN and ANONYMOUS.

Requires an authenticated user for the index request.

Table 62. 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, api_key, realm, authentication_type]

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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