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Provide a sync flush call

See original GitHub issue

If an application immediately shuts down after logging an event, for example, it can happen that the events are dropped and never written to disk for later submission. It seems that there is a sync implementation of it, but it is not exposed in the API.

If it were, we could always call that method when listening on process exit: process.on('exit'...

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Created 7 years ago
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AlexBulankoucommented, Aug 28, 2017

With the updated API, sendPendingData was renamed to flush which provides a way set a flag indicating that app is crashing, so they payload needs to be saved on disk immediately: client.flush({isAppCrashing: true}) .

I’m going to close the issue for now. Please reactivate if there’s a repro with SDK crashing with undefiend channel when flush() is called.

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AlexBulankoucommented, Aug 23, 2017

@jeffwilcox, do you happen to have a repro of undefined channel when calling sendPendingData? I can see that otherwise this method works as sync flush call.

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