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Better Auth•4w ago
Paco

additionalFields not returned in signIn

Hello, the issue is the additionnalField of user is not return in signIn with email 

export const auth = betterAuth({
    database: drizzleAdapter(db, {
        provider: "pg",
        schema: authSchema
    }),
    basePath: "/auth",
    trustedOrigins: ['*'],
    emailAndPassword: {
        enabled: true,
    },
    user: {
        additionalFields: {
            userType: {
                type: "string",
                required: false,
                returned: true,
                defaultValue: UserType.CUSTOMER,
            },
        
        },
    },
    plugins: [
        openAPI(),
        organization(),
    ],
});


return of signIn with email : 

{
  "redirect": false,
  "token": "4zRj2dlQ0qkNty1oHvkT1gpCDlABrUKR",
  "user": {
    "id": "XEaXxiz2BzMDdfQOFbyQWsn2pSfKrtQO",
    "email": "p2aco@paco.fr",
    "name": "paco2",
    "image": null,
    "emailVerified": false,
    "createdAt": "2025-11-24T10:25:44.841Z",
    "updatedAt": "2025-11-24T10:25:44.841Z"
  }
}


wanted return : 

{
  "redirect": false,
  "token": "4zRj2dlQ0qkNty1oHvkT1gpCDlABrUKR",
  "user": {
    "id": "XEaXxiz2BzMDdfQOFbyQWsn2pSfKrtQO",
    "email": "p2aco@paco.fr",
    "name": "paco2",
    "image": null,
    "emailVerified": false,
    "userType": "driver",
    "createdAt": "2025-11-24T10:25:44.841Z",
    "updatedAt": "2025-11-24T10:25:44.841Z"
  }
}


it's worked on get session : 
{
  "session": {
    ...
  },
  "user": {
    "name": "paco2",
    "email": "p2aco@paco.fr",
    "emailVerified": false,
    "image": null,
    "createdAt": "2025-11-24T10:25:44.841Z",
    "updatedAt": "2025-11-24T10:25:44.841Z",
    "userType": "driver",
    "id": "XEaXxiz2BzMDdfQOFbyQWsn2pSfKrtQO"
  }
}
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