Adds a single event to a collection and queries the analytics API for a simple event count.

keen-test.js

var should = require('should')
  , assert = require('assert')
  , request = require('request')
  , qs = require('querystring');

describe('keen api', function () {
  var projectId  = 'my_project_id'
    , masterKey  = 'my_master_key'
    , writeKey   = 'my_write_key'
    , readKey    = 'my_read_key'
    , baseURL    = 'https://api.keen.io/3.0/projects/' + projectId
    , collection = 'mycollection'
    , keen;

  before( function () {
    keen = require('keen.io').configure({
      projectId: projectId,
      writeKey: writeKey
    });
  });

  describe('add event', function () {
    it ('should add one event to mycollection', function (done) {
      keen.addEvent(collection, {foo: 'foo'}, function (err, res) {
        should.not.exist(err);
        done();
      });
    });
    it ('should count one event on mycollection', function (done) {
      var url = baseURL +'/queries/count?'
      var params = {
            api_key: readKey,
            event_collection: collection,
            interval: 'hourly',
            timeframe: 'this_hour'
          };
      url += qs.stringify(params);
      request.get({url: url}, function (err, res, body) {
        var result = JSON.parse(body).result;
        result[0].value.should.equal(1);
        done();
      });
    });
  });

  after( function (done) {
    var url = baseURL +'/events/' + collection
    var headers = {
          Authorization: masterKey
        };
    request.del({url: url, headers: headers}, function (err, res, body) {
      should.not.exist(err);
      done();
    });
  });
});

package.json

{
  "name": "keen-test",
  "version": "0.0.0",
  "description": "Keen.io API test",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "mocha keen-test.js"
  },
  "author": "Reynaldo Tortoledo",
  "license": "BSD-2-Clause",
  "dependencies": {
    "keen.io": "0.0.3",
    "request": "~2.27.0",
    "should": "~2.1.0",
    "mocha": "~1.14.0"
  }
}

Most of the times this test fails, meaning collections in Keen.io do not appear to have / provide immedate access to newly added events.

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