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PutEvents - Amazon Personalize

PutEvents

Records item interaction event data. For more information see Recording item interaction events.

Note

If you use an AWS Lambda function to call the PutEvents operation, your function's execution role must have permission to perform the personalize:PutEvents action with the wildcard * in the Resource element.

Request Syntax

POST /events HTTP/1.1 Content-type: application/json { "eventList": [ { "eventId": "string", "eventType": "string", "eventValue": number, "impression": [ "string" ], "itemId": "string", "metricAttribution": { "eventAttributionSource": "string" }, "properties": "string", "recommendationId": "string", "sentAt": number } ], "sessionId": "string", "trackingId": "string", "userId": "string" }

URI Request Parameters

The request does not use any URI parameters.

Request Body

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

eventList

A list of event data from the session.

Type: Array of Event objects

Array Members: Minimum number of 1 item. Maximum number of 10 items.

Required: Yes

sessionId

The session ID associated with the user's visit. Your application generates the sessionId when a user first visits your website or uses your application. Amazon Personalize uses the sessionId to associate events with the user before they log in. For more information, see Recording item interaction events.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 256.

Required: Yes

trackingId

The tracking ID for the event. The ID is generated by a call to the CreateEventTracker API.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 256.

Required: Yes

userId

The user associated with the event.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 256.

Required: No

Response Syntax

HTTP/1.1 200

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response with an empty HTTP body.

Errors

InvalidInputException

Provide a valid value for the field or parameter.

HTTP Status Code: 400

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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