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# Synchronously ingest billable events

POST https://api.trygrant.com/v1/events/ingest
Content-Type: application/json

Accepts a single billable event and inserts it synchronously into the database.

Reference: https://docs.trygrant.com/api-reference/grant-events-api/events/ingest

## Authentication

- `Authorization` header (bearer token, required) — API key obtained from the Grant dashboard

## Servers

- `https://api.trygrant.com` (Production, default)
- `http://localhost:8787` (Local development)

## Request

### Body (application/json)

- `event_name` (string, required) — Name of the event
- `idempotency_key` (string, required) — Unique key to prevent duplicate event processing
- `customer_id` (string, required) — Customer identifier
- `timestamp` (datetime, required) — Event timestamp in ISO 8601 UTC format (Z or +00:00)
- `session_id` (string, optional) — Optional session identifier. When provided, it is persisted on the billable event and associated product usage events to group related events.
- `properties` (map from string to any, optional) — Additional event properties

## Response

### 200

Events processed synchronously

- `success` (boolean, required)
- `status` (enum, required) — Processing outcome for the submitted event
  - Allowed values: `inserted`, `duplicate`, `failed`
- `request_id` (string, required) — Request ID for tracing
- `usage_id` (string, optional) — Created or existing billable event ID
- `cost` (list of object, optional) — Aggregated event cost by wallet denomination. Present on successful requests.
  - `amount` (string, required) — Total event cost charged for this denomination
  - `account_type` (enum, required) — Wallet denomination type
    - Allowed values: `pricing_unit`, `currency`
  - `pricing_unit_code` (string, optional) — Pricing unit code (present for pricing_unit entries)
  - `currency_code` (string, optional) — Currency code (present for currency entries)
- `customer_balances` (list of object, optional) — Current customer wallet balances across denominations after ingestion.
  - `balance` (string, required) — Current wallet balance after ingestion
  - `account_type` (enum, required) — Wallet denomination type
    - Allowed values: `pricing_unit`, `currency`
  - `pricing_unit_code` (string, optional) — Pricing unit code (present for pricing_unit entries)
  - `currency_code` (string, optional) — Currency code (present for currency entries)
- `error` (object, optional)
  - `code` (string, required)
  - `message` (string, required)

## Examples

**Request**

```json
{
  "event_name": "api.request",
  "idempotency_key": "evt_abc123xyz",
  "customer_id": "cjld2cjxh0000qzrmn831i7rn",
  "timestamp": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z"
}
```

**Response**

```json
{
  "success": true,
  "status": "inserted",
  "request_id": "req_abc123",
  "usage_id": "cm5x9z8nv0000h85r7l9p2k1m",
  "cost": [
    {
      "amount": "120",
      "account_type": "pricing_unit",
      "pricing_unit_code": "api_call",
      "currency_code": "usd"
    }
  ],
  "customer_balances": [
    {
      "balance": "980",
      "account_type": "pricing_unit",
      "pricing_unit_code": "api_call",
      "currency_code": "usd"
    }
  ],
  "error": {
    "code": "DATABASE_ERROR",
    "message": "Failed to insert event"
  }
}
```

**SDK Code**

```typescript
import { AfternoonClient } from "grant-sdk";

async function main() {
    const client = new AfternoonClient({
        token: "YOUR_TOKEN_HERE",
    });
    await client.events.ingest({
        eventName: "api.request",
        idempotencyKey: "evt_abc123xyz",
        customerId: "cjld2cjxh0000qzrmn831i7rn",
        timestamp: new Date("2023-11-07T05:31:56Z"),
    });
}
main();

```

```python
import requests

url = "https://api.trygrant.com/v1/events/ingest"

payload = {
    "event_name": "api.request",
    "idempotency_key": "evt_abc123xyz",
    "customer_id": "cjld2cjxh0000qzrmn831i7rn",
    "timestamp": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z"
}
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.json())
```

```go
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.trygrant.com/v1/events/ingest"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"event_name\": \"api.request\",\n  \"idempotency_key\": \"evt_abc123xyz\",\n  \"customer_id\": \"cjld2cjxh0000qzrmn831i7rn\",\n  \"timestamp\": \"2023-11-07T05:31:56Z\"\n}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}
```

```ruby
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.trygrant.com/v1/events/ingest")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n  \"event_name\": \"api.request\",\n  \"idempotency_key\": \"evt_abc123xyz\",\n  \"customer_id\": \"cjld2cjxh0000qzrmn831i7rn\",\n  \"timestamp\": \"2023-11-07T05:31:56Z\"\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
```

```java
import com.mashape.unirest.http.HttpResponse;
import com.mashape.unirest.http.Unirest;

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api.trygrant.com/v1/events/ingest")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\n  \"event_name\": \"api.request\",\n  \"idempotency_key\": \"evt_abc123xyz\",\n  \"customer_id\": \"cjld2cjxh0000qzrmn831i7rn\",\n  \"timestamp\": \"2023-11-07T05:31:56Z\"\n}")
  .asString();
```

```php
<?php
require_once('vendor/autoload.php');

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();

$response = $client->request('POST', 'https://api.trygrant.com/v1/events/ingest', [
  'body' => '{
  "event_name": "api.request",
  "idempotency_key": "evt_abc123xyz",
  "customer_id": "cjld2cjxh0000qzrmn831i7rn",
  "timestamp": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z"
}',
  'headers' => [
    'Authorization' => 'Bearer <token>',
    'Content-Type' => 'application/json',
  ],
]);

echo $response->getBody();
```

```csharp
using RestSharp;

var client = new RestClient("https://api.trygrant.com/v1/events/ingest");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.POST);
request.AddHeader("Authorization", "Bearer <token>");
request.AddHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");
request.AddParameter("application/json", "{\n  \"event_name\": \"api.request\",\n  \"idempotency_key\": \"evt_abc123xyz\",\n  \"customer_id\": \"cjld2cjxh0000qzrmn831i7rn\",\n  \"timestamp\": \"2023-11-07T05:31:56Z\"\n}", ParameterType.RequestBody);
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
```

```swift
import Foundation

let headers = [
  "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
  "Content-Type": "application/json"
]
let parameters = [
  "event_name": "api.request",
  "idempotency_key": "evt_abc123xyz",
  "customer_id": "cjld2cjxh0000qzrmn831i7rn",
  "timestamp": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z"
] as [String : Any]

let postData = JSONSerialization.data(withJSONObject: parameters, options: [])

let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: NSURL(string: "https://api.trygrant.com/v1/events/ingest")! as URL,
                                        cachePolicy: .useProtocolCachePolicy,
                                    timeoutInterval: 10.0)
request.httpMethod = "POST"
request.allHTTPHeaderFields = headers
request.httpBody = postData as Data

let session = URLSession.shared
let dataTask = session.dataTask(with: request as URLRequest, completionHandler: { (data, response, error) -> Void in
  if (error != nil) {
    print(error as Any)
  } else {
    let httpResponse = response as? HTTPURLResponse
    print(httpResponse)
  }
})

dataTask.resume()
```