User attribution (#5827)

* initial changes adding modified and created by fields to domain objects and updating properties inspector
* adding created date to object creation
* added a test for created timestamp
* updating remove action to hold the transaction and disregard edit state when handling transactions, also updated object api to return transaction when starting and ignore edit state when determining if transaction is active
* updating docs for object api "startTransaction"
* updating incorrect use of edit and transaction in our appActions for testing

Co-authored-by: Andrew Henry <akhenry@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Shefali <simplyrender@gmail.com>

src/api/objects/ObjectAPISpec.js

@@ -8,13 +8,27 @@ describe("The Object API", () => {
     let mockDomainObject;
     const TEST_NAMESPACE = "test-namespace";
     const TEST_KEY = "test-key";
+    const USERNAME = 'Joan Q Public';
     const FIFTEEN_MINUTES = 15 * 60 * 1000;
 
     beforeEach((done) => {
         typeRegistry = jasmine.createSpyObj('typeRegistry', [
             'get'
         ]);
+        const userProvider = {
+            isLoggedIn() {
+                return true;
+            },
+            getCurrentUser() {
+                return Promise.resolve({
+                    getName() {
+                        return USERNAME;
+                    }
+                });
+            }
+        };
         openmct = createOpenMct();
+        openmct.user.setProvider(userProvider);
         objectAPI = openmct.objects;
 
         openmct.editor = {};
@@ -63,19 +77,34 @@ describe("The Object API", () => {
                 mockProvider.update.and.returnValue(Promise.resolve(true));
                 objectAPI.addProvider(TEST_NAMESPACE, mockProvider);
             });
-            it("Calls 'create' on provider if object is new", () => {
-                objectAPI.save(mockDomainObject);
+            it("Adds a 'created' timestamp to new objects", async () => {
+                await objectAPI.save(mockDomainObject);
+                expect(mockDomainObject.created).not.toBeUndefined();
+            });
+            it("Calls 'create' on provider if object is new", async () => {
+                await objectAPI.save(mockDomainObject);
                 expect(mockProvider.create).toHaveBeenCalled();
                 expect(mockProvider.update).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
             });
-            it("Calls 'update' on provider if object is not new", () => {
+            it("Calls 'update' on provider if object is not new", async () => {
                 mockDomainObject.persisted = Date.now() - FIFTEEN_MINUTES;
                 mockDomainObject.modified = Date.now();
 
-                objectAPI.save(mockDomainObject);
+                await objectAPI.save(mockDomainObject);
                 expect(mockProvider.create).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
                 expect(mockProvider.update).toHaveBeenCalled();
             });
+            it("Sets the current user for 'createdBy' on new objects", async () => {
+                await objectAPI.save(mockDomainObject);
+                expect(mockDomainObject.createdBy).toBe(USERNAME);
+            });
+            it("Sets the current user for 'modifedBy' on existing objects", async () => {
+                mockDomainObject.persisted = Date.now() - FIFTEEN_MINUTES;
+                mockDomainObject.modified = Date.now();
+
+                await objectAPI.save(mockDomainObject);
+                expect(mockDomainObject.modifiedBy).toBe(USERNAME);
+            });
 
             it("Does not persist if the object is unchanged", () => {
                 mockDomainObject.persisted =