Inconsistency between _type and type

[knzconnor]

it seems some places expect _type, and others type, as the key for the event type?

[asmuth]

Mh, it's supposed to be "_type" everywhere. Where did you see "type"? :)

[knzconnor]

app.rb

[knzconnor]

I can't get events to show up right everywhere unless I give them both a _type and a type

[asmuth]

That's strange. Can you maybe paste your server-file and how you are submitting the events? :)

the "/:namespace/events"-action in app.rb renders the left column of the "Active Users" dashboard, so it's not involved in the event-processing.

[knzconnor]

If I only use _type I end up getting blank event types in the ActiveUsers widget.

on every event like { _type: 'unicorn_seen' }

event(:unicorn_seen) do
# increment the unicorns_seen gauge by 1
incr :unicorns_seen
end

numeric (delta) gauge, 1-hour tick

gauge :unicorns_seen,
:title => "Unicorns seen"

draw a timeline showing the gauges value, auto-refresh every 30s

widget 'Unicorns', {
:title => "Unicorn-Sightings",
:type => :numbers,
:gauges => :unicorns_seen,
:include_current => true,
:autoupdate => 60
}

[asmuth]

How are you submitting the events? I tried the config from above with this curl line:

curl -X POST -d "_type=unicorn_seen" http://localhost:4242/events

Is it possible that you submitted some events with a missing _type field earlier? In that case you could flush your redis-db (or just ignore it).

[knzconnor]

Using the raw netcat example from the docs - I also have been flushing my redis pretty regularly while testing this out.

On Wednesday, December 28, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Paul Asmuth wrote:

How are you submitting the events? I tried the config from above with this curl line:

curl -X POST -d "_type=unicorn_seen" http://localhost:4242/events

Is it possible that you submitted some events with a missing _type field earlier? In that case you could flush your redis-db (or just ignore it).

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[asmuth]

Can you get a blank type in the typelist just by submitting the netcat line from the readme? The only way I could get it was when I removed the leading underscore from "_type". However, I made a change, so the blank item won't show up anymore.

[knzconnor]

Kill the blank row helps a bit. There seems to be some oddities with getting the first few results to show up when I submit an event with only a _type, but I haven't narrowed anything else down enough to give you much to work with. Thanks for the responsiveness!

On Wednesday, December 28, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Paul Asmuth wrote:

Can you get a blank type in the typelist just by submitting the netcat line from the readme? The only way I could get it was when I removed the leading underscore from "_type". However, I made a change, so the blank item won't show up anymore.

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[asmuth]

Mh, maybe it's only the very first event, that is not showing up? The "feed view" in the "Active Users" Dashboard is always one event behind...

[knzconnor]

it might just be the one behind issue complicating debugging