User id is always IP address

I’m experimenting with Bugsnag, and loving it so far.

I’m hitting an annoyance, when adding user metadata to my exception - my user ID is being ignored, and the default IP address is always being used instead.

I’m using the standard user metadata like:

    user: {
      id: '6',
      email: '[e-mail]',
      name: 'testy mctestington'
    }

Things I’ve tried:

• deleting all of my error events, and logging again
• ensuring that id is cast to a string
• switching from bugsnag-2.min.js to bugsnag-3.min.js

[phillipsam]

@nihp what platform are you using? React Native? If so, then the automatically captured data for Android and for iOS is probably what you are looking for. In Android, the User ID and Device ID are set to a randomly generated UUID which Bugsnag uses to identify the individual application on a device. In iOS, the Device ID is a hash of device and app specific data. The dSYM UUIDs are not generated by Bugsnag. These will be generated by Apple and are used to uniquely identify the dSYMs needed for your application version.

If you have further questions on this, please write in to [e-mail].

[GrahamCampbell]

Oh, this is because the user is not metadata. You need to set the user rather than putting it in metadata. The metadata is a different field on the payload.