When the user enters his username in to the field

a username cookie is updated and will be available
in all subsequent requests.

THIS IS NOT AUTHENTICATION! it is not safe and is
only implemented as a first edition. It does how ever
solve the issue where we are not able to see who
canged what.

app.js

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 var express      = require('express'),
     bodyParser   = require('body-parser'),
+    cookieParser = require('cookie-parser'),
     log4js       = require('log4js'),
     logger       = require('./lib/logger'),
     routes       = require('./lib/routes'),
@@ -38,6 +39,8 @@ app.set('port', process.env.HTTP_PORT || process.env.PORT || 4242);
 app.use(baseUriPath, express.static(__dirname + '/public'));
 app.use(bodyParser.json({strict: false}));
 
+app.use(cookieParser());
+
 eventApi(router);
 featureApi(router);
 featureArchiveApi(router);

lib/extractUser.js

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+function extractUsername(req) {
+  return req.cookies.username || "unknown";
+}
+module.exports = extractUsername;

lib/featureApi.js

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ var NameExistsError     = require('./error/NameExistsError');
 var NotFoundError       = require('./error/NotFoundError');
 var ValidationError     = require('./error/ValidationError');
 var validateRequest     = require('./error/validateRequest');
+var extractUser         = require('./extractUser');
 
 module.exports = function (app) {
 
@@ -33,7 +34,7 @@ module.exports = function (app) {
             .then(function() {
                 return eventStore.create({
                     type: eventType.featureCreated,
-                    createdBy: req.connection.remoteAddress,
+                    createdBy: extractUser(req),
                     data: req.body
                 });
             })
@@ -56,7 +57,7 @@ module.exports = function (app) {
 
     app.put('/features/:featureName', function (req, res) {
         var featureName    = req.params.featureName;
-        var userName       = req.connection.remoteAddress;
+        var userName       = extractUser(req);
         var updatedFeature = req.body;
 
         updatedFeature.name = featureName;
@@ -83,7 +84,7 @@ module.exports = function (app) {
 
     app.delete('/features/:featureName', function (req, res) {
         var featureName    = req.params.featureName;
-        var userName       = req.connection.remoteAddress;
+        var userName       = extractUser(req);
 
         featureDb.getFeature(featureName)
             .then(function () {
@@ -118,4 +119,3 @@ module.exports = function (app) {
         });
     }
 };
-

lib/strategyApi.js

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ var logger              = require('./logger');
 var NameExistsError     = require('./error/NameExistsError');
 var ValidationError     = require('./error/ValidationError');
 var validateRequest     = require('./error/validateRequest');
+var extractUser         = require('./extractUser');
 
 module.exports = function (app) {
 
@@ -24,7 +25,7 @@ module.exports = function (app) {
     app.delete('/strategies/:name', function (req, res) {
         eventStore.create({
             type: eventType.strategyDeleted,
-            createdBy: req.connection.remoteAddress,
+            createdBy: extractUser(req),
             data: {
                 name: req.params.name
             }
@@ -44,7 +45,7 @@ module.exports = function (app) {
             .then(function() {
                 return eventStore.create({
                     type: eventType.strategyCreated,
-                    createdBy: req.connection.remoteAddress,
+                    createdBy: extractUser(req),
                     data: newStrategy
                 });
             })
@@ -75,4 +76,3 @@ module.exports = function (app) {
     }
 
 };
-

package.json

@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
   "dependencies": {
     "bluebird": "2.6.2",
     "body-parser": "1.10.1",
+    "cookie-parser": "^1.3.3",
     "db-migrate": "0.7.1",
     "deep-diff": "^0.3.0",
     "errorhandler": "1.3.2",

public/js/app.jsx

@@ -1,11 +1,14 @@
 var React                   = require('react');
 var TabView                 = require('./components/TabView');
 var Menu                    = require('./components/Menu');
+var UserStore               = require('./stores/UserStore');
 var LogEntriesComponent     = React.createFactory(require('./components/log/LogEntriesComponent'));
 var FeatureTogglesComponent = React.createFactory(require('./components/feature/FeatureTogglesComponent'));
 var StrategiesComponent     = React.createFactory(require('./components/strategy/StrategiesComponent'));
 var ArchiveFeatureComponent = React.createFactory(require('./components/feature/ArchiveFeatureComponent'));
 
+UserStore.init();
+
 var tabPanes = [
     {
         name: 'Feature Toggles',

public/js/components/Menu.jsx

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 var React = require('react');
+var User = require('./User');
 
 var Menu = React.createClass({
     render: function() { return (
@@ -46,6 +47,9 @@ var Menu = React.createClass({
                       unleash admin
                    </span>
                   </a>
+                  <div style={{position: "absolute", right: "0"}}>
+                    <User />
+                  </div>
                 </div>
               </div>
             </div>

public/js/components/User.jsx

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+var React = require('react');
+var UserStore = require('../stores/UserStore');
+
+var User = React.createClass({
+
+  onSave: function() {
+    var value = this.refs.username.getDOMNode().value.trim();
+    UserStore.set(value);
+  },
+
+  render: function() {
+    return (
+      <div className="r-pam">
+        <input type="text" placeholder="username"
+          ref="username"
+          defaultValue={UserStore.get()}
+          onBlur={this.onSave} />
+      </div>
+    );
+  }
+});
+
+module.exports = User;

public/js/stores/UserStore.js

@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+var _username;
+
+//Ref: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10730362/get-cookie-by-name
+function readCookie(name) {
+    var nameEQ = name + "=";
+    var ca = document.cookie.split(';');
+    for(var i=0;i < ca.length;i++) {
+        var c = ca[i];
+        while (c.charAt(0)==' ') {
+          c = c.substring(1,c.length);
+        }
+        if (c.indexOf(nameEQ) === 0) {
+          return c.substring(nameEQ.length,c.length);
+        }
+    }
+    return null;
+}
+
+var UserStore = {
+    init: function init() {
+      _username = readCookie("username");
+    },
+
+    set: function set(username) {
+      _username=username;
+      document.cookie="username="+_username+"; expires=Thu, 18 Dec 2099 12:00:00 UTC";
+    },
+
+    get: function get() {
+      return _username;
+    }
+};
+
+module.exports = UserStore;