Get periodic country events

Periodic country events are events that for each subscriber's SIM card will look at it's current country location and the time since last event sent for that same SIM card for that country. Each operator will have a time interval configured for this event, and the event will happen whenever a subscriber is seen in a country for which this event has not been sent for that time.

NOTE that this API responds with the IMSI for the SIM card in the user's handset. This is considered PII information and needs to be handled with care.

This event is triggered:

  • When the subscriber first turns on the device and it connects to a network, it will be triggered for the country of the connected network at the same time as the corresponding 'FirstAttachment' event.
  • When the subscriber enters a new country (not visited before). This is triggered at the same time as the corresponding 'CountryChange' event.
  • When the subscriber is seen in a country, and the 'PeriodicCountry' event for that subscriber and country has not been triggered for the configured time delay.

Prerequisites

  1. An OAuth 2.0 client
  2. A client access token

Required scope

subscription.periodic_country:read

Code

TIP

You can test our APIs without authorization by targetting sandbox.api.wgtwo.com instead of api.wgtwo.com and removing any authorization from the request/code sample.

Download proto definitions
curl -sL 'https://github.com/working-group-two/wgtwoapis/blob/master/image.bin?raw=true' -o wgtwo.bin
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export ACCESS_TOKEN="my_client_access_token"
grpcurl -protoset wgtwo.bin \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN" \
  -d '
  {
    "stream_configuration": {
      "regular": {},
      "disable_explicit_ack": {}
    }
  }
  ' \
  api.wgtwo.com:443 \
  wgtwo.subscription.v1.SubscriptionEventService/StreamPeriodicCountryEvents
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About stream_configuration

For testing purposes, we include the config:

"stream_configuration": {
  "regular": {},              Reading position will not be stored in the server and load is not spread between your clients 
  "disable_explicit_ack": {}  Let events be automatically acked
}
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By default, load will automatically be spread between all connections using the same OAuth 2.0 client and you will need to reply with a ack once your service has handled the message. This is also what we would recommend for real production usage.

See configuring event streaming for details.

Example result

{
  "periodicCountryEvent": {
    "number": {
      "e164": "+47xxxxxxxx"
    },
    "imsi": {
      "value": "242xxyyyyyyyyyy"
    },
    "country": {
      "code": "NO",
      "name": "Norway"
    }
  }
}
{
  "periodicCountryEvent": {
    "number": {
      "e164": "+47xxxxxxxx"
    },
    "imsi": {
      "value": "242xxyyyyyyyyyy"
    },
    "country": {
      "code": "SE",
      "name": "Sweden"
    }
  }
}
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Install dependencies

Maven

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.wgtwo.api.v1.grpc</groupId>
  <artifactId>subscription</artifactId>
  <version>1.8.0</version>
</dependency>

search.maven.org/search?q=g:com.wgtwo.api.v1.grpcopen in new window

package com.example.periodiccountry

import com.google.common.util.concurrent.ThreadFactoryBuilder
import com.google.protobuf.Duration
import com.wgtwo.api.v1.events.EventsProto
import com.wgtwo.api.v1.events.EventsProto.AckInfo
import com.wgtwo.api.v1.subscription.SubscriptionEventServiceGrpc
import com.wgtwo.api.v1.subscription.SubscriptionEventsProto.AckPeriodicCountryEventRequest
import com.wgtwo.api.v1.subscription.SubscriptionEventsProto.AckPeriodicCountryEventResponse
import com.wgtwo.api.v1.subscription.SubscriptionEventsProto.StreamPeriodicCountryEventsRequest
import com.wgtwo.api.v1.subscription.SubscriptionEventsProto.StreamPeriodicCountryEventsResponse
import io.grpc.CallCredentials
import io.grpc.Context
import io.grpc.ManagedChannelBuilder
import io.grpc.Metadata
import io.grpc.Status
import io.grpc.StatusException
import io.grpc.StatusRuntimeException
import io.grpc.stub.StreamObserver
import java.util.concurrent.Executor
import java.util.concurrent.Executors
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit
import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean
import java.util.function.Supplier

fun main() {
    EventHandler.start()
    Thread.sleep(60_000)
    EventHandler.close()
}

object EventHandler {
    private val accessToken = "my_client_access_token"
    private val api = "api.wgtwo.com" // or use "sandbox.api.wgtwo.com"
    private val channel = ManagedChannelBuilder.forAddress(api, 443).build()
    private val subscriptionEvents = SubscriptionEventServiceGrpc.newStub(channel)
        .withCallCredentials(BearerToken { accessToken })
        .withWaitForReady()

    private val maxInFlight: Int = EventsProto.StreamConfiguration.MAX_IN_FLIGHT_FIELD_NUMBER
    private val duration: Duration = Duration.newBuilder().setSeconds(60).build()
    private val context = Context.current().fork().withCancellation()
    private val started = AtomicBoolean()
    private val streamExecutor = Executors.newSingleThreadScheduledExecutor()
    private val processExecutor = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(this.maxInFlight, thread("event-pool-%d"))

    fun start() {
        if (started.getAndSet(true)) {
            return
        }
        streamExecutor.submit(::run)
    }

    private fun run() {
        println("Starting subscription")
        val request =
            StreamPeriodicCountryEventsRequest.newBuilder()
                .setStreamConfiguration(
                    EventsProto.StreamConfiguration.newBuilder()
                        .setMaxInFlight(this.maxInFlight)
                        .setCustomAckTimeout(this.duration)
                )
                .build()
        context.run {
            subscriptionEvents.streamPeriodicCountryEvents(
                request,
                periodicCountryObserver
            )
        }
    }

    private fun ack(ackInfo: AckInfo) {
        val request = AckPeriodicCountryEventRequest.newBuilder().setAckInfo(ackInfo).build()
        subscriptionEvents.ackPeriodicCountryEvent(request, ackObserver)
    }

    private val periodicCountryObserver = object : StreamObserver<StreamPeriodicCountryEventsResponse> {
        override fun onNext(response: StreamPeriodicCountryEventsResponse) {
            processExecutor.submit {
                try {
                    println(response)
                } catch (e: Exception) {
                    println("Could not process event. e = $e")
                } finally {
                    ack(response.metadata.ackInfo)
                }
            }
        }

        override fun onError(t: Throwable) {
            val code = code(t)
            if (code == Status.Code.CANCELLED) {
                println("Cancelled - Good bye!")
                return
            }
            val delaySeconds =
                when (code) {
                    Status.Code.UNAUTHENTICATED, Status.Code.PERMISSION_DENIED -> 10L
                    else -> 1L
                }
            println("Got onError with code=${code} - restart in $delaySeconds seconds")
            streamExecutor.schedule(::run, delaySeconds, TimeUnit.SECONDS)
        }

        override fun onCompleted() = Unit

        fun code(throwable: Throwable): Status.Code =
            when (throwable) {
                is StatusRuntimeException -> throwable.status.code
                is StatusException -> throwable.status.code
                else -> Status.Code.UNKNOWN
            }
    }

    private val ackObserver = object : StreamObserver<AckPeriodicCountryEventResponse> {
        override fun onNext(value: AckPeriodicCountryEventResponse) =
            when (value.ackStatus.statusCode) {
                EventsProto.AckStatus.StatusCode.STATUS_CODE_SUCCESS ->
                    println("Ack success")
                else -> println("Ack failed: ${value.ackStatus}")
            }

        override fun onError(t: Throwable) = println("onError. $t")
        override fun onCompleted() = Unit
    }


    private fun thread(format: String) = ThreadFactoryBuilder().setNameFormat(format).build()

    fun close() {
        println("Starting shutdown...")
        context.cancel(null)
        streamExecutor.shutdown()
        streamExecutor.awaitTermination(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS)
        processExecutor.shutdown()
        processExecutor.awaitTermination(20, TimeUnit.SECONDS)
        channel.shutdown().awaitTermination(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS)
        println("Shutdown complete.")
    }
}

class BearerToken(private val tokenSupplier: Supplier<String>) : CallCredentials() {
    override fun applyRequestMetadata(
        requestInfo: RequestInfo, executor: Executor, metadataApplier: MetadataApplier
    ) {
        executor.execute {
            try {
                val headers = Metadata()
                val token = tokenSupplier.get()
                headers.put(AUTH_HEADER, "Bearer $token")
                metadataApplier.apply(headers)
            } catch (e: Throwable) {
                metadataApplier.fail(Status.UNAUTHENTICATED.withCause(e))
            }
        }
    }

    override fun thisUsesUnstableApi() {}

    companion object {
        private val AUTH_HEADER = Metadata.Key.of("authorization", Metadata.ASCII_STRING_MARSHALLER)
    }
}
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Example result

periodic_country_event {
  number {
    e164: "+47xxxxxxxx"
  }
  imsi {
    value: "242xxyyyyyyyyyy"
  }
  country {
    code: "NO"
    name: "Norway"
  }
}

# Ack success

periodic_country_event {
  number {
    e164: "+47xxxxxxxx"
  }
  imsi {
    value: "242xxyyyyyyyyyy"
  }
  country {
    code: "SE"
    name: "Sweden"
  }
}

# Ack success
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