def report(self, **kwargs):  # noqa: E501
        """Directly ingest data/data stream with specified format  # noqa: E501

          # noqa: E501
        This method makes a synchronous HTTP request by default. To make an
        asynchronous HTTP request, please pass async_req=True
        >>> thread = api.report(async_req=True)
        >>> result = thread.get()

        :param async_req bool
        :param str f: Format of data to be ingested
        :param str body: Data to be ingested, in the specified format.  See https://docs.wavefront.com/direct_ingestion.html for more detail on how to format the data. Example in \"wavefront\" format:  <pre>test.metric 100 source=test.source</pre> which ingests a time series point with metric name \"test.metric\", source name \"test.source\", and value of 100 with timestamp of now.
        :return: None
                 If the method is called asynchronously,
                 returns the request thread.
        """
        kwargs['_return_http_data_only'] = True
        if kwargs.get('async_req'):
            return self.report_with_http_info(**kwargs)  # noqa: E501
        else:
            (data) = self.report_with_http_info(**kwargs)  # noqa: E501
            return data