Abillity to add json data in PlayStream event

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kaushikbhatt asked Sep 4, '18

Abillity to add json data in PlayStream event

We are using Snowflake and would like to capture out player data for 'x' game like a json data using PlayFAb's Playstream event. E.g:

{
    "EventName": "gamebygamelog",
    "EventNamespace": "title.A0D3",
    "EntityType": "title",
    "Source": "A0D3",
    "EventId": "7bc48a761ee94dd48dc5010f0e8a7f08",
    "EntityId": "A0D3",
    "SourceType": "GameServer",
    "Timestamp": "2018-09-04T11:05:13.2724789Z",
    "History": null,
    "CustomTags": null,
    "Reserved": null,
    "PlayFabEnvironment": {
        "Vertical": "master",
        "Cloud": "main",
        "Application": "mainserver",
        "Commit": "5cd811a"
    },
    "GameID": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
    "GameType": "Normal",
    "Boot": 45000,
    "Chaal": 5760000,
    "Pot_limit": 46080000,
    "Num_P": 3,
    "Players": 
	[ 
      	  { 
     	     "ID": Player ID
     	     "Type": type of player
             "SW:" wallet
             "Hand": Hand
             "Hand_Sh": Hand Strength
             "Bet": Player bet amount
             "Win": Player win amount
             "Folded": Whether folded or amount
             "Gift": Player gift spend
             "Tip": Player tip spend
           },
          {
     
          },
     
       ]
    "GameTime": 12.4036523
}

Can we post this structure of data using

PlayFabServerAPI.WriteTitleEventAsync(new PlayFab.ServerModels.WriteTitleEventRequest()
{
Body = data,
EventName = eventName
});

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Answer 1 · 2018-09-05T00:08:00Z

brendan answered Sep 5, '18

Yes, when you call WritePlayerEvent or WriteTitleEvent, the Body is JSON data - specifically, a dictionary of key/value pairs. That shows up in the event in Snowflake (and the Event History page) as an object named "Payload".

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Hamza Lazaar commented · Sep 12, 2018 at 05:24 PM

I have never seen the key "Payload" in any PlayStream event in the Event History page.
The key/value pairs of the custom dictionary are added to the top level/root object of the PlayStream event along with PlayFab's default key/values. By the way, could you check if those are counted in the 1000bytes free limit, I think they do, which is not fair IMO as a lot of them are useless from a developer's point of view.

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Andy ♦♦ Hamza Lazaar commented · Sep 12, 2018 at 06:31 PM

The Payload field appears in the PLAYSTREAM_ARCHIVE_SHARED table in Snowflake as the "P" field, not in PlayStream. In PlayStream all custom event properties appear inline alongside boilerplate properties.

Also, no, we don't count the boilerplate against the 1024 byte limit. We explicitly measure the byte count of the request payload prior to adding it to the full PlayStream event.

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Hamza Lazaar Andy ♦♦ commented · Sep 13, 2018 at 10:08 AM

Thank you @Andy
I did some tests, it seems the limit is 1000 characters, 1000 bytes and not 1024 characters / 1024 bytes. Could you check please?

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Answer 2 · 2018-09-24T08:48:18Z

kaushikbhatt answered Sep 24, '18

HI.. Related to above I've another related query...

Is there a way we can SET the

"CustomTags"

When posting events in PlayStream. I havent found any docs showing us IF and HOW can we do this

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brendan commented · Sep 25, 2018 at 07:10 AM

I'd recommend reviewing this thread, on the same topic: https://community.playfab.com/questions/5436/how-to-set-customtags-field-in-the-events-properti.html

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kaushikbhatt brendan commented · Sep 25, 2018 at 07:15 AM

Our use case is a bit more simple.. We just want to tag the event saying whether the currency change was due to source event or a sink event.. no other info we would like to add... But as you have already said in the thread my assumption is that we wont be allowed to use it from game/server side... right?

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brendan kaushikbhatt commented · Sep 26, 2018 at 02:22 AM

Understood, but the CustomTags is part of the base class, and is for the event provider (which would be PlayFab, in this case) to add any additional tags. It's not something you can set. What I would recommend is firing your own custom event, using WritePlayerEvent.

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kaushikbhatt commented · Sep 26, 2018 at 07:02 AM

gr8 thanks for confirming. we shall opt for that instead

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