Send and Track Events

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Send Event

You can send event to Suprsend platform by using the suprClient.trackEvent method. When you call suprClient.trackEvent, the SDK internally makes an HTTP call to SuprSend Platform to register this request, and you’ll immediately receive a response indicating the acceptance status. The actual processing/execution of event happens asynchronously.

package suprsend;

import org.json.JSONObject;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;

import suprsend.Suprsend;
import suprsend.SuprsendException;
import suprsend.Event;

public class Event {
	public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
		trackEvent();
	}

	private static void trackEvent() throws SuprsendException, UnsupportedEncodingException{
		// Initialize SDK
		Suprsend suprClient = new Suprsend("_workspace_key_", "_workspace_secret_");

		String distinctId = "__distinct_id__";
		String eventName = "__event_name__";

		// dynamic data to render template and workflow variables
		JSONObject eventProps = new JSONObject()
				.put("key1", "value1")
				.put("key2", "value2");

		Event e = new Event(distinctId, eventName, eventProps);
		JSONObject response = suprClient.trackEvent(e);
		System.out.println(response);
	}
}

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Trigger events for a brand/tenant

If you handle communications to end users on behalf of your customers and want to send custom notifications for each brand/tenant, you can do that with the help of brands (now called tenants).

Just pass the brand_id of your customer brand as 5th parameter in your event instance like shown below and the properties of that brand will be used to replace brand variables in your template.

Event e = new Event(distinctId, eventName, eventProps, , brandId);

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Idempotent Requests

SuprSend supports idempotency to ensure that requests can be retried safely without duplicate processing. If Suprsend receives and processes a request with an idempotency_key, it will skip processing requests with same idempotency_key for next 24 hours. You can use this key to track webhooks related to workflow notifications.

To make an idempotent request, pass idempotency_key as the 4th parameter in your event instance like shown below. Idempotency key should be unique that you generate for each request. You may use any string up to 255 characters in length as an idempotency key. Ensure that you don’t add any space in start and end of the key as it will be trimmed.

Event e = new Event(distinctId, eventName, eventProps, idempotencyKey);

Here are some common approaches for assigning idempotency keys:

• Generate a random UUID for each request.
• Construct the idempotency key by combining relevant information about the request. This can include parameters, identifiers, or specific contextual details that are meaningful within your application. For example, you could concatenate the user ID, action, and timestamp to form an idempotency key like user147-new-comment-1687437670
• Request-specific Identifier: If your request already contains a unique identifier, such as an order ID or a job ID, you can use that identifier directly as the idempotency key.

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Add file attachment (for email)

You can add file attachment by appending the attachment filepath to each event instance.

• Call event.addAttachment() for each file with an accessible URL. Ensure that file_path is a publicly accessible URL.
• Since event API size can’t be > 100 KB, local file paths can’t be passed in event attachment.

    ...

    Event e1 = new Event(distinctId1, eventName1, eventProps1); //Event 1
    // this snippet can be used to add attachment to event
    String filePath1 = "https://www.africau.edu/images/default/sample.pdf";
    e1.addAttachment(filePath1);

    ...

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Bulk Event Trigger

You can use Bulk API to send multiple events.

Use .append() on bulk_events instance to add however-many-records to call in bulk.

...

BulkEvents bulkIns = suprClient.bulkEvents.newInstance();
    
Event e1 = new Event(distinctId1, eventName1, eventProps1); //Event 1
Event e2 = new Event(distinctId2, eventName2, eventProps2); //Event 2
    
// --- use .append on bulk instance to add one or more records
  bulkIns.append(e1)
  bulkIns.append(e2)
// OR
  bulkIns.append(e1, e2)

// Track event
JSONObject response = bulkIns.trigger();
System.out.println(response);