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Marie 19c9f957b1 Improve userFriendlyMessage devX (#16815)
Two challenges with error messages
- always provide a useful/meaningful error message for the end user
instead of the generic one. eg: show "Wrong password" and not "An error
occured"
- avoid technical details unless error regards a technical feature. eg:
show "An error occured" and not "Invalid post-hook payload."; but do
show "Invalid issuer URL." as it occurs while configuring SSO

What this PR does
- Make userFriendlyMessage mandatory for widely used
GraphqlQueryRunnerException and CommonQueryRunnerException, so that
developers are forced to ask themselves what the error message should
be, and as it contains very wide error codes (eg: "Bad request") which
should not be mapped to just one default message
- Keep userFriendlyMessage optional for service-specific exceptions (eg:
workflowStepExecutorException), but convert the error code to
userFriendlyMessage mapper to a switch case function with a typecheck
ensuring that all codes are mapped to a message. These default messages
are still overridable where they are thrown.
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Analytics Module

This module provides analytics tracking functionality for the Twenty application.

Usage

Tracking Events

The AuditService provides a createContext method that returns an object with three methods:

  • insertWorkspaceEvent: For tracking workspace-level events
  • createObjectEvent: For tracking object-level events that include record and metadata IDs
  • createPageviewEvent: For tracking page views
import { Injectable } from '@nestjs/common';
import { AuditService } from 'src/engine/core-modules/audit/services/audit.service';
import { CUSTOM_DOMAIN_ACTIVATED_EVENT } from 'src/engine/core-modules/audit/utils/events/track/custom-domain/custom-domain-activated';

@Injectable()
export class MyService {
  constructor(private readonly auditService: AuditService) {}

  async doSomething() {
    // Create an analytics context
    const auditService = this.auditService.createContext({
      workspaceId: 'workspace-id',
      userId: 'user-id',
    });

    // Track a workspace event
    auditService.insertWorkspaceEvent(CUSTOM_DOMAIN_ACTIVATED_EVENT, {});
    
    // Track an object event
    auditService.createObjectEvent(OBJECT_RECORD_CREATED_EVENT, {
      recordId: 'record-id',
      objectMetadataId: 'object-metadata-id',
      // other properties
    });
    
    // Track a pageview
    auditService.createPageviewEvent('page-name', {
      href: '/path',
      locale: 'en-US',
      // other properties
    });
  }
}

Adding New Events

To add a new event:

  1. Create a new file in the src/engine/core-modules/analytics/utils/events/track directory
  2. Define the event name, schema, and type
  3. Register the event using the registerEvent function
  4. Update the TrackEventName and TrackEventProperties types in src/engine/core-modules/analytics/utils/events/event-types.ts

Example:

// src/engine/core-modules/analytics/utils/events/track/my-feature/my-event.ts
import { z } from 'zod';

import { registerEvent } from 'src/engine/core-modules/analytics/utils/events/track/track';

export const MY_EVENT = 'My Event' as const;
export const myEventSchema = z.object({
  event: z.literal(MY_EVENT),
  properties: z.object({
    myProperty: z.string(),
  }),
});

export type MyEventTrackEvent = z.infer<typeof myEventSchema>;

registerEvent(MY_EVENT, myEventSchema);

Then update the events.type.ts file:

// src/engine/core-modules/analytics/types/events.type.ts
import { MY_EVENT, MyEventTrackEvent } from '../utils/events/track/my-feature/my-event';

// Add to the union type
export type TrackEventName = 
  | typeof MY_EVENT
  // ... other event names;

// Add to the TrackEvents interface
export interface TrackEvents {
  [MY_EVENT]: MyEventTrackEvent;
  // ... other event types
}

// The TrackEventProperties type will automatically use the new event
export type TrackEventProperties<T extends TrackEventName> = T extends keyof TrackEvents
  ? TrackEvents[T]['properties']
  : object;

API

AuditService

createContext(context?)

Creates an analytics context with the given user ID and workspace ID.

  • context (optional): An object with userId and workspaceId properties

Returns an object with the following methods:

  • insertWorkspaceEvent<T extends TrackEventName>(event: T, properties: TrackEventProperties<T>): Tracks a workspace-level event
  • createObjectEvent<T extends TrackEventName>(event: T, properties: TrackEventProperties<T> & { recordId: string; objectMetadataId: string }): Tracks an object-level event
  • createPageviewEvent(name: string, properties: Partial<PageviewProperties>): Tracks a pageview

Types

TrackEventName

A union type of all registered event names, plus string for backward compatibility.

TrackEventProperties

A mapped type that maps each event name to its corresponding properties type. It uses the TrackEvents interface to provide a more maintainable and type-safe way to map event names to their properties.

// Define the mapping between event names and their event types
export interface TrackEvents {
  [EVENT_NAME_1]: Event1Type;
  [EVENT_NAME_2]: Event2Type;
  // ... other event types
}

// Use the mapping to extract properties for each event type
export type TrackEventProperties<T extends TrackEventName> = T extends keyof TrackEvents
  ? TrackEvents[T]['properties']
  : object;

This approach makes it easier to add new events without having to modify a complex nested conditional type.

PageviewProperties

Properties for pageview events, including href, locale, pathname, referrer, sessionId, timeZone, and userAgent.