write-user-event.js

// Copyright 2022 Google Inc.
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'use strict';

// [START retail_write_user_event]
async function main() {
  // Imports the Google Cloud client library.
  const {UserEventServiceClient} = require('@google-cloud/retail').v2;
  const utils = require('../setup/setup-cleanup');

  // Instantiates a client.
  const retailClient = new UserEventServiceClient();

  const projectId = await retailClient.getProjectId();
  const visitorId = 'test_visitor_id';

  // Placement
  const parent = `projects/${projectId}/locations/global/catalogs/default_catalog`; // TO CHECK ERROR HANDLING PASTE THE INVALID CATALOG NAME HERE

  // User event to write
  const userEvent = {
    eventType: 'home-page-view',
    visitorId,
    eventTime: {
      seconds: Math.round(Date.now() / 1000),
    },
  };

  const callWriteUserEvent = async () => {
    // Construct request
    const request = {
      userEvent,
      parent,
    };

    console.log('Write request: ', request);

    // Run request
    const response = await retailClient.writeUserEvent(request);
    console.log(`Operation result: ${JSON.stringify(response[0])}`);
  };

  // Create new user event
  console.log('Start to write user event');
  await callWriteUserEvent();
  console.log('Write operation finished');

  // Purge user events by visitor id
  await utils.purgeUserEvents(parent, visitorId);
}

process.on('unhandledRejection', err => {
  console.error(err.message);
  process.exitCode = 1;

});

main();
// [END retail_write_user_event]