Function drainQueueToPayload

packages/cli/src/telemetry/client.ts:108–119

* Drain the in-memory queue into a PostHog `/batch/` payload string. * Returns null when there's nothing to send. Resets the queue as a side effect * so callers can fire-and-forget the resulting payload. * * $ip:null tells PostHog not to record the request IP for any of these events. * Server-s

()

 * Server-side "Discard client IP data" is also enabled in project settings.
 */
function drainQueueToPayload(): string | null {
  if (eventQueue.length === 0) return null;
  const config = readConfig();
  const batch = eventQueue.map((e) => ({
    event: e.event,
    properties: { ...e.properties, $ip: null },
    distinct_id: e.distinctId ?? config.anonymousId,
    timestamp: e.timestamp,
  }));
  eventQueue = [];
  return JSON.stringify({ api_key: POSTHOG_API_KEY, batch });
}

/**
 * Flush all queued events to PostHog via async HTTP POST.