POST/product-event-creation/:custom_id/

Create product event (alternative)

There's an alternative endpoint for creating a product event assigned to a specific user.
If your products have custom IDs with "/" character, the standard endpoint will not work and you need to use the endpoint given below:

Attributes	Type	Required	Description
user_id	integer	yes	A unique identifier for the user which is given by User.com automatically.
user_custom_id	string	yes	The unique identifier for the user which is provided by the client.
custom_id	string	no	A unique identifier for the product provided by the client.
data	json	yes	A valid JSON object with additional data (attributes). Special "custom_data" key may contain additional custom json defined data unique per product event occurence.
event_type	string	yes	A prefined event type. Find defined choices: https://docs.user.com/how-to-create-product-events/
timestamp	timestamp	yes	A datetime when an event occured in UNIX format.

Request

CURL

curl -X POST
    "https://<your_app_subdomain>.user.com/api/public/product-event-creation/:custom_id/"
    -H 'authorization: Token <your_64_char_api_key>'
    -H 'content-type: application/json'
    -d '{
    "user_id": 431,  // OR use user_custom_id
    "event_type": "order",
    "timestamp": 1426967129,
    "data": {
      "create attribute for product": "my value",
      "custom_data": {
        "custom attr": "json data"
      }
    }
  }'

JavaScript

var data = JSON.stringify({
  "user_id": 431,  // OR use user_custom_id
  "event_type": "order",
  "timestamp": 1426967129,
  "data": {
    "create attribute for event's product": "my value",
    "custom_data": {
      "custom attr": "json data"
    }
  }
});

var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.withCredentials = true;

xhr.addEventListener("readystatechange", function () {
  if (this.readyState === 4) {
    console.log(this.#### ResponseText);
  }
});

xhr.open("POST", "https://<your_app_subdomain>.user.com/api/public/product-event-creation/:custom_id/");
xhr.setRequestHeader("authorization", "Token <your_64_char_api_key>");
xhr.setRequestHeader("accept", "*/*; version=2");
xhr.setRequestHeader("content-type", "application/json");

xhr.send(data);

PHP

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://<your_app_subdomain>.user.com/api/public/product-event-creation/:custom_id/",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => "{\n\t\"user_id\": 431, // OR use user_custom_id\n\t\"event_type\": \"order\",\n\t\"timestamp\": 1426967129,\n\t\"data\": {\n\t\t\"create attribute for event's product\": \"my value\",\n\t\t\"custom_data\": {\n\t\t\t\"custom attr\": \"json data\"\n\t\t}\n\t}\n}",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
      "Accept: */*; version=2",
    "authorization: Token <your_64_char_api_key>",
    "content-type: application/json"
  ),
));

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

Python

import requests

url = "https://<your_app_subdomain>.user.com/api/public/product-event-creation/:custom_id/"

payload = "{\n\t\"user_id\": 431, // OR use user_custom_id\n\t\"event_type\": \"order\",\n\t\"timestamp\": 1426967129,\n\t\"data\": {\n\t\t\"create attribute for event's product\": \"my value\",\n\t\t\"custom_data\": {\n\t\t\t\"custom attr\": \"json data\"\n\t\t}\n\t}\n}"
headers = {
    'authorization': "Token <your_64_char_api_key>",
    'content-type': "application/json"
    }

response = requests.request("POST", url, data=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

Response

{
  "id": 388
}