Support for sending user info?

[cycomachead]

Would you be interested in supporting a set_person() method to send user data to rollbar?
(Happy to contribute a patch!)

[EtienneM]

We welcome every contribution! How do you plan to fill this person attribute? Where would the data come from?

For your information, here is what Rollbar expects regarding person:

    // Optional: person
    // The user affected by this event. Will be indexed by ID, username, and email.
    // People are stored in Rollbar keyed by ID. If you send a multiple different usernames/emails for the
    // same ID, the last received values will overwrite earlier ones.
    "person": {
      // Required: id
      // A string up to 40 characters identifying this user in your system.
      "id": "12345",

      // Optional: username
      // A string up to 255 characters
      "username": "brianr",

      // Optional: email
      // A string up to 255 characters
      "email": "brian@rollbar.com"
    },

From https://docs.rollbar.com/reference#items

[cycomachead]

What I've done is this:
https://github.com/bromagosa/snapCloud/pull/177/files#diff-d5c255fc66c6740437720ea92cd0815fR145

Essentially you can provide rollbar:set_person({}} with a table of the current user. I don't currently verify that the attributes are correct, since it seems fairly simple -- though I haven't robustly tested the rollbar API, so it might be worth doing a little bit of verification.

[cycomachead]

And thanks for the quick responses! :) This is definitely a big help.