How to default select user in People Picker?

Question

I want to set default selected user on people picker?

<NormalPeoplePicker
                onChange={this._onChange.bind(this)}
                onResolveSuggestions={this._onFilterChanged}
                getTextFromItem={(persona: IPersonaProps) => persona.primaryText}
                pickerSuggestionsProps={suggestionProps}
                className={'ms-PeoplePicker'}
                key={'normal'}
                itemLimit={1}
                defaultSelectedItems={()}


              />

How to use defaultSelectedItems? Thanks

Answer 1

You can achieve this using REST API:

$(document).ready(function () {

var userid = _spPageContextInfo.userId;

function GetUserLogin() {
var requestUri = _spPageContextInfo.webAbsoluteUrl + "/_api/web/getuserbyid(" + userid + ")";

var requestHeaders = { "accept" : "application/json;odata=verbose" };

$.ajax({
  url : requestUri,
  contentType : "application/json;odata=verbose",
  headers : requestHeaders,
  success : QuerySuccess,
  error : QueryError
});
}

function QuerySuccess(data, request){
  //removes the claims encoding
  var loginName = data.d.LoginName.split('|')[1];
  $("div[title='PeoplePickerColumnName']").val(loginName);
}

function QueryError(error) {
  alert(error);
}

GetUserLogin();

});

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