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Elixir/Phoenix API for Code Corps.
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Alias user on create #1357

Open joshsmith opened 6 years ago

joshsmith commented 6 years ago

What's in this PR?

Allows us to alias the user on creation.

This is a WIP and very much incomplete.

A few of the issues we have with this:

begedin commented 6 years ago

Re:

  • we're sending too many events close to the alias, leading to a race condition

We already agreed we should weer of off implicit tracking through Plugs.Segment and instead track explicitly from the controller action.

We did this in other places, but it looks like here, we still implicitly track user created using the plug. This may cause some parallelism, which may be what's causing race conditions.

If we moved tracking to be explicit, we may eliminate this, but I'm not sure.

We would do this by

def includes?(:create, %CodeCorps.User{}), do: true

from lib/code_corps/analytics/segment_tracking_support.ex

user_id |> SegmentTracker.track("Signed Up", user)

to the create action

I also think we should add a function clause to CodeCorps.Analytics.SegmentTracker which accepts the user struct as the first argument, instead of just the id, but that's a whole other issue.