Support Groups

[ericmeadows]

We are trying to use the product, and groups are not yet supported. Please create parity with the other languages in terms of features.

[tiina303]

Workaround: you can use groups through providing $groups { 'company': 'id5'} like so in properties

[ericmeadows]

So something akin to the following, or does it need to be a string?

HashMap<String, String> groups = new HashMap<String, String>() {
    {
        put("groupId", groupId);
    }
};
HashMap<String, Object> eventData = new HashMap<String, Object>() {
    {
        put("dataKey1", dataValue1);
        put("dataKey2", dataValue2);
        put("$groups", groups);
    }
};

[ericmeadows]

Another quick item in the documentation is that id:5 does not let me know ahead of time if it will be 5, or id:5 in the stored data type.

[tiina303]

Yes that looks right. Let me know if it didn't work. With "company" and "id:5" I was referring to the examples we use in the docs in other libraries (e.g. https://posthog.com/docs/integrate/server/python#group-analytics) - which is just a random name we picked to use, you could use names like "google", "meta" etc instead or whatever makes sense for your groups

[ericmeadows]

Thank you!! That worked. It might be good to add that in the documentation for Java because I thought groups was completely not supported.

[skydowx]

Is there a workaround to send group properties in Java?

[ivanagas]

This is now documented so closing 😄