Get user object in custom service

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I have a custom service running in Backendless Cloud.

I am using
Backendless.UserService.getCurrentUser()
thinking that this would return the user who invoked the service but I just get null.

The service is being called from the JS API like this:
Backendless.APIServices.invoke('sharedPosts', 'transormPost', id)

Is there a way to get the user object of the user who invoked the service?

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Hi Tony,

Is there a logged in Backendless user in the app/service/program that invokes the sharedPosts service?

Regards,
Mark

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Hi Mark,
Yes the service is being invoked by a logged in user from the JS API.

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Try the following to get the userId in your Cloud Code:

this.request.context.userId

Then you can retrieve the actual object with:

currentUser = await Backendless.Data.of( "Users" ).findById( userId )

Please let me know if it worked.

Regards,
Mark

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Hi Mark,

this.request.context.userId

worked in getting me the user id, so shouldn’t be a probably gettng the object from this now.
Thanks very much.

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