The version of the app is not reported in Matomo

[teolemon]

What

• The version of the app is not reported in Matomo

Part of

• Matomo (Tracker) #2855

[monsieurtanuki]

In analytics_helper.dart, we initialize matomo that way:

      await MatomoTracker.instance.initialize(
        url: 'https://analytics.openfoodfacts.org/matomo.php',
        siteId: 2,
        visitorId: uuid,
      );

I'm not familiar with matomo at all, but it looks like there's a field String contentBase in MatomoTracker that is used as a "root url" for all events (like 'https://myapp.com' in 'https://myapp.com/product/1234').
And as we don't specify a value (parameter contentBaseUrl) in the initialize method, the default value is something like 'https://$packageName'. Therefore no version inside.

@teolemon If what I say makes sense, how would you like to put the app version in the content base url? 'https://$packageName:$versionNumber'?

[M123-dev]

Mhh you are right looking the package has these features, but I could not find anything about a content base in the matomo docs, you'd thing that would be a more requested usecase but it does not seem like it

[M123-dev]

My overall opinion is "use the right tool for a job" maybe we are better off with a different platform for mobile analytics one which is aimed at apps. countly seems to be a good oss choice

[teolemon]

@monsieurtanuki @g123k this solution makes sense
I'm looking at it to create a segment to see if users doing prices come back more often

[monsieurtanuki]

@teolemon Just checking: you mean https://$packageName:$versionNumber would be alright? To be implemented now?