[firebase-analytics] number parameters not sent

[louis030195]

Hi, I have been using Google/Firebase Analytics for some time and properly receiving my events with the string values, but when I try to use "number" values it's always kind of bugged, 0 or null valued.

const analytics = useAnalytics();
logEvent(analytics, "drawer_tab", {
  current_drawer_tab: drawerSelection,
  new_drawer_tab: value,
  role: role,
  product_id: productData?.id || "",
  elapsed_time: drawerTabTimer.elapsedTime, // Here elapsedTime is always a float
});
console.log("drawerTabTimer.elapsedTime", drawerTabTimer.elapsedTime); // always shows correct float value

In Google Analytics, I can't ever see values, even though I have some string values in BigQuery afterward.

I use the Google Cloud BigQuery integration

SELECT 
  event_date,
  event_timestamp,
  event_params
FROM `foo.bar.events_intraday_*`
WHERE 
_table_suffix BETWEEN "20220700" AND "20220715"
ORDER BY event_timestamp DESC

Is there an issue with Analytics not dealing well with number/float or something like that? Or should I even cast numbers to string?

Thanks a lot!

[hsubox76]

The Firebase Analytics web SDK is a wrapper around gtag.js that passes the params directly to gtag with no additional formatting, and according to the gtag documentation, numbers are fine. https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gtagjs/events

It looks like from the documentation that if you want it to show up as the "event value" in the analytics dashboard you have to make the key literally value. Were you doing that before and just changed the key names for this bug report? As for it being null in BigQuery results, I'm not familiar with BigQuery so I don't know if something has gone wrong in the pipeline there.

[louis030195]

In the end, I just waited a few more days and I got the double value now