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feat: add support for ph-label in autocapture elements #271

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💡 Motivation and Context

Private slack thread: https://posthog.slack.com/archives/C03PB072FMJ/p1733219779409259
Docs: PostHog/posthog.com#10085

Autocapture elements can now be given a PostHog label which can then be used in analytics to filter for a specific element (using Tag Name and/or CSS Selector)

Autocapture elements now get class and id attributes:

  • class: the superclass of the element if not a common type like UIView, UIControl, NSObject or UIResponder
  • id: the value of the custom label defined through postHogLabel (UIKit) or .postHogLabel(_ label: String?) (SwiftUI)

SwiftUI

  • I think most of the interactions in a SwiftUI app are already autocaptured (since most of interactive SwiftUI controls map to a UIKit counterpart). List includes collection views, scroll views, table views, text fields, text views, switches etc
  • An important element we are missing is support for UIButton (SwiftUI renders buttons as images)

Minor

  • Some minor improvements/corrections
  • New simpler implementation of ForwardingPickerViewDelegate

Notes

The implementation uses $elements_chain (constructed by the client) since $elements will be deprecated soon https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/blob/f9be4fa28668e242d56bab9651cf9c79b40d9249/plugin-server/src/worker/ingestion/process-event.ts#L119

💚 How did you test it?

📝 Checklist

  • I reviewed the submitted code.
  • I added tests to verify the changes.
  • I updated the docs if needed.
  • No breaking change or entry added to the changelog.

@ioannisj ioannisj requested a review from marandaneto as a code owner December 5, 2024 06:50
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Co-authored-by: Manoel Aranda Neto <5731772+marandaneto@users.noreply.github.com>
@ioannisj ioannisj merged commit 3db5aeb into main Dec 10, 2024
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@ioannisj ioannisj deleted the feat/autocapture-custom-label branch December 10, 2024 10:33
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