Webhook question - no useful information?

Issues developing apps
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I am doing this for version OpenVidu version 2.15.0.

OPENVIDU_WEBHOOK=true
OPENVIDU_WEBHOOK_ENDPOINT=https://mydomain.com/api.php?postNewVideoCall=1
#OPENVIDU_WEBHOOK_HEADERS=
OPENVIDU_WEBHOOK_EVENTS=[sessionCreated,sessionDestroyed,participantJoined,participantLeft,webrtcConnectionCreated,webrt$

It works, I get a hit when someone makes a call which is good, but it doesn’t pass any useful information to my endpoint. Why? Is there a way to get it to also send who is calling? I mean the inspector’s Active Sessions shows who and what, why is that info not sent too with the webhook?

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You have the very same information in both the REST API (which is the data endpoint used by the Inspector) and the CDR/WebHook events.
For example, the participantJoined event has all the info about it (Connection objects in the REST API entities): OpenVidu Docs
Same for every webrtc connection (publishers and subscribers in the REST API entities): OpenVidu Docs

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Thanks, so I enabled OPENVIDU_CDR=true in my .env. It works, all activity is logged to my log directory of /opt/openvidu/cdr in JSON format. thats great. But thats still on the server, the JSON log data is not part of the webhook call. So when someone tries to call, I get a webhook hit to my external PHP script, but it has no posted data still. its just a notice that something happened, but I don’t even know what. I have to somehow build a solution to check this JSON log file at /opt/openvidu/cdr to find out what happened now? Why? Wouldn’t the info be posted with the webhook hit?

Am I missing something? I mean you said “You have the very same information in both the REST API… and the CDR/WebHook events” - then where is it in the webhook? when I look at the posted variables from the webhook hit/event I see no information at all, including no CDR log data that I want.

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CDR and WebHook serve the very same information into two different places. The documentation explains everything. The CDR generates a log file with the information, the webhook allows you to react in real time from your application’s server side.

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Thanks, I figured it out. The JSON is not posted as a POST variable, you just read the HTTP stream directly. All great.