Event subscription filter

[Steven Dorning]

What is the best way of subscribing only to events for changes to entities of type "Task" or more specifically a specific type of task.

i.e. something like

session.event_hub.subscribe('topic=ftrack.update and data.entityType="Task"', callback)

It seems as this data is embedded in the Entities list and I can't work  out how to do this is in a string 

e.g. data.entities[0].entity_type="Task"

Or is it simply that this has to be filtered in the callback function?

 

[Guest]

Indeed you currently have to filter in the callback.

 

 

[JP LeDoux]

I suppose it's the same limitation if you wanted to filter the subscription by project?

[Guest]

Correct, generally. For update events, you'd have to construct