Listen to SDK events

Our SDK dispatches events when the user interacts with our widgets or our API.

In order to execute custom actions based on the lifecyle of our widget on your site, you can listen to the various events it dispatches.

Events dispatched

ready

Dispatched when Axeptio SDK is loaded and initialized.

consent:saved

This event is dispatched when a consent has been successfully sent and processed by the Axeptio's API. The payload contains the preferences of the user and the metadata describing the consent.

cookies:complete

Event dispatched by the Cookies service when we know which vendors are accepted and which are not. Because this event is used to trigger the launch of selected vendors and scripts, the cookies:complete is dispatched even if the cookie widget doest not pop. If we find preferences inside the browser's cookies, we dispatch the event and discard the widget opening.

The cookies:complete event is sent with a payload containing the user's choices

axeptio.on('cookies:complete', function(choices){
   if(choices.google_analytics){
     startGoogleAnaytics()
   }
});

cookies:step:change

When the cookie widget is open, this event will be dispatched when a user switches from one screen to another. The payload is an object containing a property named index which is the integer index of the step in the array of steps. It also contains the Step definition (identifier, title, description, list of vendors, etc.)

cookies:step.startTimeout

Dispatched when an "Info" step starts its timeout before going to the next step.

cookies:step.stopTimeout

Dispatched when an "Info" step ends its timeout or is stopped by the user.

token:update

The user token can be updated during the session, for example when a user token is based on an input field or deduced from an AJAX call. This event is dispatched when the token contained by the SDK is updated.

overlayOpenWidget

Is used imperatively to trigger the apparition of the Axeptio button.

overlayOpenCookies

Is used imperatively to trigger the apparition of the Axeptio cookies panel.

showProcessingDetails

Dispatched when the overlay is opened with the details of a data processing. Can be used imperatively to trigger the apparition of the Axeptio overlay.

close

Dispatched when the overlay is closed. Can be used imperatively to trigger the apparition of the Axeptio overlay.

Under the hood

Our SDK conforms to a custom EventEmitter Class that exposes three methods:

EventEmitter.on

on(event:String, handler:Function, options = {replay: true, once: false})

The event parameter accepts wildcards * in order to listen to several events at once. For example, you could pass cookies:* and subsequentely receive every event related to our Cookie Widget.

The handler parameter is a function that gets called when the event emitter dispatches an event matching the event parameter pattern. The handler function will receive two arguments:

1. The payload attached to the event

2. The exact name of the event dispatched

The options optional parameter is an object composed of the flags:

1. If replay is set to true, past events that have been dispatched before the event handler is set will result in calling the handler function right away. If set to false, only subsequent events will trigger a call to the handler.

2. If once is set to true, the handler will only be called once. After it's been called, a matching event won't call it again.

EventEmitter.off

off(event:String, handler:Function = undefined)

The off method will unsubscribe the specified handler for the specified event, if it is specified as the second parameter of the function. If handler is unspecified, every handler function listening to the exact event pattern will be removed of the handlers array.

EventEmitter.trigger

trigger(event:String, payload:Object = undefined)

This method is used to trigger an event, and also allows to send mixed data by specifying the payload parameter.