Initialisation

Assuming you have completed the Actionscript 3 Tracker Setup for your project, you are now ready to initialize the AS3 Tracker.

Importing the module

Import the AS3 Tracker's classes into your AS3 code like so:

import com.snowplowanalytics.snowplow.tracker.*;
import com.snowplowanalytics.snowplow.tracker.emitter.*;
import com.snowplowanalytics.snowplow.tracker.payload.*;

That's it - you are now ready to initialize a Tracker instance.

Creating a Tracker

To instantiate a tracker in your code simply instantiate the Tracker interface:

Tracker(emitter:Emitter, namespace:String, appId:String, subject:Subject, stage:Stage = null, base64Encoded:Boolean = true)

For example:

var t1:Tracker = new Tracker(emitter, "AF003", "cf", user1Subject, this.stage, true);

Argument Name	Description	Required?
emitter	The Emitter object you create	Yes
namespace	The name of the Tracker instance	Yes
appId	The application ID	Yes
subject	The Subject that defines a user	No (default null)
stage	The stage property of a DisplayObject	No (Default null)
base64Encoded	Whether to enable base 64 encoding	No (Default true)

emitter

The emitter to which the tracker will send events. See Emitters for more on emitter configuration.

subject

The user which the Tracker will track. This should be an instance of the Subject class. You don't need to set this during Tracker construction; you can use the Tracker.setSubject method afterwards. In fact, you don't need to create a subject at all. If you don't, though, your events won't contain user-specific data such as timezone and language.

namespace

If provided, the namespace argument will be attached to every event fired by the new tracker. This allows you to later identify which tracker fired which event if you have multiple trackers running.

appId

The appId argument lets you set the application ID to any string.

base64Encoded

By default, unstructured events and custom contexts are encoded into Base64 to ensure that no data is lost or corrupted. You can turn encoding on or off using the Boolean base64Encoded argument.

Change the tracker's platform with setPlatform

You can change the platform by calling:

tracker.setPlatform("cnsl");

For a full list of supported platforms, please see the Snowplow Tracker Protocol.