Event Types
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OWA is an event based framework composed of a variety of event handlers that are designed to perform specific analytic/logging functions. Events are composed of an Event type and a message. An Event's message could be an array, object or any other data type.
The follow events are fired when certain actions relating to tracking occur. Event handler can listen for these events and performe their own actions.
| Event Name | Description |
|---|---|
| base.first_page_request | This event is fired when a new visitor views a page. |
| base.page_request | This event is fired when a page view occures. |
| base.page_request_logged | This event is fired after a request event has ben written to the database. |
| base.new_session | This event is fired whenever a new session is logged to the database . |
| base.session_update | This event fired when an exisitng session has been updated. |
| base.new_comment | This event is fired when a user posts a comment. |
| base.feed_request | This event is fired whenever there is a request for an RSS/ATOM/XML feed. |
| dom.click | This event is fired when a dom click event is generated by a browser. |
| dom.stream | This event occurs when a dom stream is recorded. |
| Event Name | Description | Properties |
|---|---|---|
| init | This event is fired after OWA has loaded its configuration and modules but before the most global framework objects have been setup. | |
| tracking_event_processing_complete | This event is fired after all processing of a new tracking event is complete but before the event has been passed to handlers or queued. |
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Module developers can write event handlers that can be configured to listen for one or more event types.
Module controllers can implement new event types.