Can't set keen.timestamp property

[rbxbx]

"You have the ability to overwrite the keen.timestamp property. This could be useful, for example, if you are backfilling historical data." – https://keen.io/docs/event-data-modeling/event-data-intro/

However, https://github.com/keenlabs/KeenClient-Java/blob/master/src/main/java/io/keen/client/java/KeenClient.java#L239 currently prevents this.

I'm trying to use the library to import some legacy data and without being able to set this property, I can't do any useful time based analysis.

Thanks!

Cheers.

[rbxbx]

to be clear, my data looks something like

{ foo: 123,
  keen: {timestamp: "2013-10-22 14:45:26"},
  bar: 456 }

[dkador]

This is a bit confusing but you need to use a different method:

public void addEvent(String eventCollection, Map<String, Object> event, Map<String, Object> keenProperties,
                         AddEventCallback callback)

Set your timestamp in the keenProperties map. And just set callback to null if you don't want one.

Let me know if that doesn't work?

[rbxbx]

I believe that worked! Thank you :)

Any reason it can't be supported in the same method? I seem to recall overriding this property working with the Ruby library. (I could be incorrect, it was some time ago that I used it).

Cheers.

[dkador]

No, there's no real reason other than attempting to codify the difference between an event's body and the keen namespace through interface design. It should be simple enough to support both approaches though. 

What do you think?

On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 3:10 AM, Robert Pitts notifications@github.com wrote:

I believe that worked! Thank you :) Any reason it can't be supported in the same method? I seem to recall overriding this property working with the Ruby library. (I could be incorrect, it was some time ago that I used it).

Cheers.

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