Adding Actions to Existing Event via WAAPI

Question

Hi there,

I'm working on a tool that automatically creates events on import. I'm stuck on what to do when there is a name conflict. Desired behaviour is that if the event already exists, add another action to that event. I thought that the "merge" setting for onNameConflict in the call below would cater for that, but I have found that it creates a new event with an incremented name instead (what I thought would be the behaviour for the "rename" setting).
 

{
    "parent": "\\Events\\Default Work Unit",
    "type": "Folder",
    "name": "WAAPI",
    "onNameConflict": "merge",
    "children": [
        {
            "type": "Event",
            "name": "Play_SFX",
            "children": [
                {
                    "name": "",
                    "type": "Action",
                    "@ActionType": 1,
                    "@Target": "\\Actor-Mixer Hierarchy\\Default Work Unit\\SFX"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

I have tried giving the Action a name in the child object, thinking that maybe that would help Wwise work out the merge, but that didn't work either.

Is there a way to add another Action to an existing event with this call, or would it require me to do another @object.get, copy all actions and settings across, add the new action and replace the old object with the new?

Thanks 

Jake 

Answer 1

Managed to solve this - it was user error!
Merge is the correct option for onNameConflict, and the action does require a name so that Wwise can add a new action of the same type to an existing event, rather than overwrite it.
My blunder was having a space where there shouldn't have been one, and Wwise was creating a new event with a slightly different name - whoops.

Comments

I'm trying to use this call from unity. It works the first time but the connection silently breaks immediately after and I can't invoke any other calls or refresh the wwise picker.

Sometimes I get this error, some times I don't

TimeoutException: Timeout when receiving message.
Wamp.Receive (System.Int32 timeout) (at Assets/Wwise/API/Runtime/Handwritten/WAAPI/Wamp.cs:334)

{
  "parent": "\\Events\\Default Work Unit",
  "type": "Folder",
  "name": "E04S06",
  "onNameConflict": "merge",
  "children": [
    {
      "type": "Event",
      "name": "E04S06_ENTROO_SERGEANT_002000",
      "children": [
        {
          "name": "newActionName",
          "type": "Action",
          "@ActionType": 1,
          "@Target": "\\Actor-Mixer Hierarchy\\VO Work Unit\\VO Sounds\\E04S06_ENTROO_SERGEANT_0020"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

           AkWaapiUtilities.WaapiClient.Call(
                ak.wwise.core.@object.create,
                jsonQuery, null);