Logging model events without a logged in user

[jmedlin]

I would like to log the activity of events that happen on a model just like your example. Since the create, update, delete functions are being called by an API there is no logged in user. I'm getting this error when making my API call.

exception 'ErrorException' with message 'Argument 1 passed to BFCampaigns\SourceCode::Spatie\Activitylog\{closure}() must implement interface Spatie\Activitylog\logsActivityInterface, instance of BFCampaigns\SourceCode given' in /app/vendor/spatie/activitylog/src/Spatie/Activitylog/LogsActivity.php:10

Is there a way to assign events without a logged in user to some default system user account?

[jmedlin]

Here is my implementation inside of my model class

    public function getActivityDescriptionForEvent($eventName)
    {
        if ($eventName == 'created')
        {
            return 'Source Code (' . $this->source_code . '): "' . $this->entry_name . '" was created';
        }

        if ($eventName == 'updated')
        {
            return 'Source Code (' . $this->source_code . '): "' . $this->entry_name . '" was updated';
        }

        if ($eventName == 'deleted')
        {
            return 'Source Code (' . $this->source_code . '): "' . $this->entry_name . '" was deleted';
        }

        return '';
    }

[kerwitz]

Your model needs to implement the LogsActivityInterface interface as shown in the log model events section of the README. By default the code will fall back to an empty string if no user id can be obtained from the Auth provider.

I just made a pull request that enables you to customize this fallback value from the config. With this, you may default to either '' or 0 to indicate "anonymous" or you could create a user model for your system tasks and insert its id.

[jmedlin]

Worked perfectly, thank you.

[kerwitz]

No problem!