Can the Segment Analytics .NET library on localhost not send data to the cloud?

Question

I'm trying to use the Segment Analytics .NET library in an application. Is there a way to configure it so that it doesn't actually send data to the cloud? Like a "NoOp" when it comes to the actual sending of data?

The documentation states the following (for development purposes):

You can use this initialization during development while testing the library. SetAsync(false) will make sure the library makes a request to our servers every time it’s called.

Analytics.Initialize("YOUR_WRITE_KEY", new Config().SetAsync(false)); Don’t forget to set async back to true for production, so that you can advantage of asynchronous flushing on a different thread.

To me, this reads as: "On localhost development, you will STILL SEND THE DATA to the cloud -but- instead of trying to be efficient and batching it up, etc... we'll send it ASAP after each call."

Which sucks because I would like the option to NOT send any data anywhere, but my code 'thinks' it's getting sent, still.

Is there a special configuration trick?

Answer 1

There's a (not documented?) property called Send .. which will either send the data upstream or not (a nop using a FakeRequestHandler).

e.g.

Analytics.Initialize("YOUR_WRITE_KEY", new Config{ Send = false });

Here's the code in their library that does all this.