fix: ensure anonymousId or userId is added to the payload (#3075)

Co-authored-by: kodiakhq[bot] <49736102+kodiakhq[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>

src/core/server/events/listeners/analytics.ts

@@ -53,6 +53,18 @@ export class AnalyticsCoralEventListener
     this.analytics = new Analytics(key, relativeTo("/v1/batch", url));
   }
 
+  private track(event: Event) {
+    return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+      this.analytics.track(event, (err) => {
+        if (err) {
+          return reject(err);
+        }
+
+        return resolve();
+      });
+    });
+  }
+
   private filter(event: AnalyticsCoralEventListenerPayloads): boolean {
     switch (event.type) {
       case CoralEventType.COMMENT_CREATED:
@@ -178,44 +190,57 @@ export class AnalyticsCoralEventListener
 
   public initialize: CoralEventPublisherFactory<
     AnalyticsCoralEventListenerPayloads
-  > = (ctx) => {
-    return async (event) => {
-      // Check to see if we should process this event.
-      if (!this.filter(event)) {
-        // The event should not be processed.
-        return;
-      }
+  > = (ctx) => async (event) => {
+    // Check to see if we should process this event.
+    if (!this.filter(event)) {
+      // The event should not be processed.
+      return;
+    }
 
-      // Create the event payload.
-      const details = await this.create(ctx, event);
-      if (!details) {
-        return;
-      }
+    // Create the event payload.
+    const details = await this.create(ctx, event);
+    if (!details) {
+      return;
+    }
 
-      // Pull some properties out of the context.
-      const {
-        // Sometimes, the user isn't defined (an anonymous request), so default
-        // so we don't get any spread errors.
-        user: { id: userId } = {},
-        tenant: { id: tenantID, domain: tenantDomain },
-      } = ctx;
+    // Pull some properties out of the context.
+    const {
+      id,
+      user,
+      tenant: { id: tenantID, domain: tenantDomain },
+    } = ctx;
 
-      // Assemble the track payload.
-      const payload: Event = {
-        event: details.event,
-        userId,
-        properties: {
-          ...details.properties,
-          tenantID,
-          tenantDomain,
-        },
-        timestamp: event.createdAt,
-      };
-
-      logger.debug({ payload }, "sending analytics event");
-
-      // Send the event payload to analytics.
-      return this.analytics.track(payload);
+    // Assemble the track payload.
+    const payload: Event = {
+      event: details.event,
+      properties: {
+        ...details.properties,
+        tenantID,
+        tenantDomain,
+      },
+      timestamp: event.createdAt,
     };
+
+    if (user) {
+      // If the user is available, attach it as the userId.
+      payload.userId = user.id;
+    } else {
+      // Otherwise use the traceID of the request as the anonomousId.
+      payload.anonymousId = id;
+    }
+
+    logger.debug({ payload }, "sending analytics event");
+
+    // Send the event payload to analytics. We don't await on the event to be
+    // sent because the analytics event system will batch these operations
+    // and may not send them for a few seconds (we can't make the user wait that
+    // long).
+    this.track(payload)
+      .then(() => {
+        logger.debug({ payload }, "analytics event sent");
+      })
+      .catch((err) => {
+        logger.error({ err, payload }, "could not send analytics event");
+      });
   };
 }

src/types/@rudderstack/rudder-sdk-node.d.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 declare module "@rudderstack/rudder-sdk-node" {
   export interface Event {
     userId?: string;
+    anonymousId?: string;
     event: string;
     properties: Record<string, any>;
     timestamp?: Date;