Configure Events & Actions

The Events & Actions section in the Admin Portal allows for creating, editing, and deleting event listeners and specific actions that these listeners handle.

Event Listeners

The Event Listeners section allows you to see the number and type of event listeners you created, their status, and the number of actions they're connected to. Upon hovering, you can see the name of the action linked to the event listener. For more information, read how to create event listeners.

Actions

The Actions section allows you to see the number and type of actions you created, their status, and the number of event listeners they're connected to. Upon hovering, you can see the name of the event listener linked to the action. For more information, read how to create actions.

Create Event Listener

To create an event listener:

1. Open Admin Portal and choose Events & Actions.

2. Select your app and the corresponding keyset.

3. Click the + EVENT LISTENER button.

4. Choose a category for your event listener.

   Name	Description
   Messages	Reacts to message events.

5. Select the type of your event listener from the dropdown list.

   Name	Description
   Message Publish	Triggers an action when a message is published.

6. Select a filter type for the event listener from the dropdown list. Depending on your filter type selection, the flow for creating an event listener varies.

   Name	Description
   No filter	No filtering done on conditions. Selecting this option triggers actions for all messages.
   Basic filters	Predetermined conditions triggering an action selected from the UI.
   Advanced JSONPath	Conditions triggering an action in a JSONPath format.

7. You can pair your event listener with a previously created action without leaving the Event Listeners view. To do this, click the + ACTION button and select Choose an existing action.

8. Save your newly created event listener by clicking the SAVE CHANGES button.

Filter types

There are three types of filters available:

• No filter
• Basic filters
• Advanced JSONPath

No filter

This filter doesn't require any configuration. Selecting this option triggers actions for all messages.

Basic filters

After choosing Basic filters, you will see two dropdown lists, Filters and Conditions, and an input field labeled Value.

1. From the Filters dropdown list, select one of the available filters.

   Name	Description
   Channel	Trigger an action after a message is published on a specific channel.
   Sender ID	Trigger an action after a message is published by a specific sender.

2. From the Conditions dropdown list, select one of the available conditions.

   Name	Description
   Exact Match	Trigger an action only if there is an exact match.
   Contains	Trigger an action if the specified value is found.

3. In the Value field, type the value that must meet the selected condition. For example, choosing the exact match by the channel name Matrix will create an event listener that will trigger an action on every message published in the Matrix channel.

Advanced JSONPath

Utilizing JSONPath allows for a much more robust setup of event handlers than basic filters.

You can use JSONPath to define the following conditions to trigger an action:

Condition name	Data type	Description
channel	string	Name of the channel the message was sent to.
message	any	Message content.
meta	any	Custom metadata.
uuid	string	Sender ID.

User ID / UUID

User ID is also referred to as UUID/uuid in some APIs and server responses but holds the value of the userId parameter you set during initialization.

To recreate the example from Basic Filters, you can use the following JSONPath query:
$.[?(@.channel == "Matrix")]. This will trigger an action when your message is published to the Matrix channel.

Create Action

Choose the category of your action and follow the configuration steps for each action category.

Name	Description
Webhook	Allows for a third-party service integration.
Amazon SQS	Allows you to use a third-party message queuing service.
Amazon Kinesis	Allows you to use a real-time, streaming data analysis service.
Amazon S3 with batching	Allows you to use third-party object storage service.

Webhook payload example

The following JSON is an example of a webhook payload that is triggered when the message Wake up, Neo... is sent by Client-w5h0y on the channel Matrix.

User ID / UUID

User ID is also referred to as UUID/uuid in some APIs and server responses but holds the value of the userId parameter you set during initialization.

{
  "event": {
    "eventCategory": "message",
    "iso8601timestamp": "2022-05-11T17:48:53Z", // <timestamp for when publish is recorded by nginx on our edge>
    "subscribeKey": "sub-c-eb78cd84-test-keys-8053-0a5864604ba8",
    "eventPayload": {
      "meta": null, // publish meta <json>
      "message": { // publish message <json>
        "text": "Wake up, Neo..."
      }
    },
    "eventId": "0b8e84d6-test-test-b478-9774bca9aff3", // id of event, in this case the publish
    "eventType": "message.publish",
    "channel": "Matrix", // channel on which the publish was sent
    "timetoken": "16522913332159825", // pubnub publish timetoken

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