Added author and creation date

3 files changed, 29 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/client/documents/Documents.ts b/src/client/documents/Documents.ts
index 8706359e4..37d263e75 100644
--- a/src/client/documents/Documents.ts
+++ b/src/client/documents/Documents.ts
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ import { listSpec } from "../../new_fields/Schema";
 import { DocServer } from "../DocServer";
 import { StrokeData, InkField } from "../../new_fields/InkField";
 import { dropActionType } from "../util/DragManager";
+import { DateField } from "../../new_fields/DateField";
 
 export interface DocumentOptions {
     x?: number;
@@ -168,6 +169,13 @@ export namespace Docs {
 
     function CreateInstance(proto: Doc, data: Field, options: DocumentOptions) {
         const { omit: protoProps, extract: delegateProps } = OmitKeys(options, delegateKeys);
+        if (!("author" in protoProps)) {
+            protoProps.author = CurrentUserUtils.email;
+        }
+        if (!("creationDate" in protoProps)) {
+            protoProps.creationDate = new DateField;
+        }
+
         return SetDelegateOptions(SetInstanceOptions(proto, protoProps, data), delegateProps);
     }
 
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/FieldView.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/FieldView.tsx
index a1e083b36..613c24fa4 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/FieldView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/FieldView.tsx
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ import { List } from "../../../new_fields/List";
 import { ImageField, VideoField, AudioField } from "../../../new_fields/URLField";
 import { IconField } from "../../../new_fields/IconField";
 import { RichTextField } from "../../../new_fields/RichTextField";
+import { DateField } from "../../../new_fields/DateField";
 
 
 //
@@ -77,6 +78,8 @@ export class FieldView extends React.Component<FieldViewProps> {
         }
         else if (field instanceof AudioField) {
             return <AudioBox {...this.props} />;
+        } else if (field instanceof DateField) {
+            return <p>{field.date.toLocaleString()}</p>;
         }
         else if (field instanceof Doc) {
             return (
diff --git a/src/new_fields/DateField.ts b/src/new_fields/DateField.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c0a79f267
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/new_fields/DateField.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+import { Deserializable } from "../client/util/SerializationHelper";
+import { serializable, date } from "serializr";
+import { ObjectField, Copy } from "./ObjectField";
+
+@Deserializable("date")
+export class DateField extends ObjectField {
+    @serializable(date())
+    readonly date: Date;
+
+    constructor(date: Date = new Date()) {
+        super();
+        this.date = date;
+    }
+
+    [Copy]() {
+        return new DateField(this.date);
+    }
+}