Stream record data using Streaming Ingestion APIs

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This tutorial will help you begin using streaming ingestion APIs, part of the Adobe Experience Platform Data Ingestion Service APIs.

Getting started

This tutorial requires a working knowledge of various Adobe Experience Platform services. Before beginning this tutorial, please review the documentation for the following services:

Experience Data Model (XDM): The standardized framework by which Platform organizes experience data.
- Schema Registry developer guide: A comprehensive guide that covers each of the available endpoints of the Schema Registry API and how to make calls to them. This includes knowing your {TENANT_ID}, which appears in calls throughout this tutorial, as well as knowing how to create schemas, which is used in creating a dataset for ingestion.
Real-Time Customer Profile: Provides a unified, consumer profile in real time based on aggregated data from multiple sources.

Using Platform APIs

For information on how to successfully make calls to Platform APIs, see the guide on getting started with Platform APIs.

Compose a schema based off of the XDM Individual Profile class

To create a dataset, you will first need to create a new schema that implements the XDM Individual Profile class. For more information about how to create schemas, please read the Schema Registry API developer guide.

API format

POST /schemaregistry/tenant/schemas

Request

curl -X POST https://platform.adobe.io/data/foundation/schemaregistry/tenant/schemas \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer {ACCESS_TOKEN}' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'x-api-key: {API_KEY}' \
  -H 'x-gw-ims-org-id: {ORG_ID}' \
  -H 'x-sandbox-name: {SANDBOX_NAME}' \
  -d '{
    "type": "object",
    "title": "Sample schema",
    "description": "Sample description",
    "allOf": [
        {
            "$ref": "https://ns.adobe.com/xdm/context/profile"
        },
        {
            "$ref": "https://ns.adobe.com/xdm/context/profile-person-details"
        },
        {
            "$ref": "https://ns.adobe.com/xdm/context/profile-work-details"
        }
    ],
    "meta:immutableTags": [
        "union"
    ]
  }'

Property	Description
`title`	The name you want to use for your schema. This name must be unique.
`description`	A meaningful description for the schema you are creating.
`meta:immutableTags`	In this example, the `union` tag is used to persist your data into Real-Time Customer Profile.

Response

A successful response returns HTTP status 201 with details of your newly created schema.

{
    "$id": "https://ns.adobe.com/{TENANT_ID}/schemas/{SCHEMA_ID}",
    "meta:altId": "_{TENANT_ID}.schemas.{SCHEMA_ID}",
    "meta:resourceType": "schemas",
    "version": "1.0",
    "type": "object",
    "title": "Sample schema",
    "description": "Sample description",
    "allOf": [
        {
            "$ref": "https://ns.adobe.com/xdm/context/profile"
        },
        {
            "$ref": "https://ns.adobe.com/xdm/context/profile-person-details"
        },
        {
            "$ref": "https://ns.adobe.com/xdm/context/profile-work-details"
        }
    ],
    "meta:class": "https://ns.adobe.com/xdm/context/profile",
    "meta:abstract": false,
    "meta:extensible": false,
    "meta:extends": [
        "https://ns.adobe.com/xdm/context/profile",
        "https://ns.adobe.com/xdm/data/record",
        "https://ns.adobe.com/xdm/cpmtext/identitymap",
        "https://ns.adobe.com/xdm/common/extensible",
        "https://ns.adobe.com/xdm/common/auditable",
        "https://ns.adobe.com/xdm/context/profile-person-details",
        "https://ns.adobe.com/xdm/context/profile-work-details"
    ],
    "meta:immutableTags": [
        "union"
    ],
    "meta:containerId": "tenant",
    "imsOrg": "{ORG_ID}",
    "meta:xdmType": "object",
    "meta:registryMetadata": {
        "repo:createDate": 1551376506996,
        "repo:lastModifiedDate": 1551376506996,
        "xdm:createdClientId": "{CLIENT_ID}",
        "xdm:repositoryCreatedBy": "{CREATED_BY}"
    }
}

Property	Description
`{TENANT_ID}`	This ID is used to ensure that resources you create are namespaced properly and contained within your organization. For more information about the Tenant ID, please read the schema registry guide.

Please take note of the $id as well as the version attributes, as both of these will be used when creating your dataset.

Set a primary identity descriptor for the schema

Next, add an identity descriptor to the schema created above, using the work email address attribute as the primary identifier. Doing this will result in two changes:

The work email address will become a mandatory field. This means messages sent without this field will fail validation and will not be ingested.
Real-Time Customer Profile will use the work email address as an identifier to help stitch together more information about that individual.

Request

curl -X POST https://platform.adobe.io/data/foundation/schemaregistry/tenant/descriptors \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer {ACCESS_TOKEN}' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'x-api-key: {API_KEY}' \
  -H 'x-gw-ims-org-id: {ORG_ID}' \
  -H 'x-sandbox-name: {SANDBOX_NAME}' \
  -d '{
    "@type":"xdm:descriptorIdentity",
    "xdm:sourceProperty":"/workEmail/address",
    "xdm:property":"xdm:code",
    "xdm:isPrimary":true,
    "xdm:namespace":"Email",
    "xdm:sourceSchema":"{SCHEMA_REF_ID}",
    "xdm:sourceVersion":1
}

Property	Description
`{SCHEMA_REF_ID}`	The `$id` that you previously received when you composed the schema. It should look something like this: `"https://ns.adobe.com/{TENANT_ID}/schemas/{SCHEMA_ID}"`

NOTE

Identity Namespace Codes

Please ensure that the codes are valid - the example above uses “email” which is a standard identity namespace. Other commonly used standard identity namespaces can be found within the Identity Service FAQ.

If you would like to create a custom namespace, follow the steps outlined in the identity namespace overview.

Response

A successful response returns HTTP status 201 with information on the newly created primary identity descriptor for the schema.

{
    "xdm:property": "xdm:code",
    "xdm:sourceSchema": "https://ns.adobe.com/{TENANT_ID}/schemas/{SCHEMA_ID}",
    "xdm:namespace": "Email",
    "@type": "xdm:descriptorIdentity",
    "xdm:sourceVersion": 1,
    "xdm:isPrimary": true,
    "xdm:sourceProperty": "/workEmail/address",
    "@id": "17aaebfa382ce8fc0a40d3e43870b6470aab894e1c368d16",
    "meta:containerId": "tenant",
    "version": "1",
    "imsOrg": "{ORG_ID}"
}

Create a dataset for record data

Once you have created your schema, you will need to create a dataset to ingest record data.

NOTE

This dataset will be enabled for Real-Time Customer Profile and Identity Service.

API format

POST /catalog/dataSets

Request

curl -X POST https://platform.adobe.io/data/foundation/catalog/dataSets \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer {ACCESS_TOKEN}' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'x-api-key: {API_KEY}' \
  -H 'x-gw-ims-org-id: {ORG_ID}' \
  -H 'x-sandbox-name: {SANDBOX_NAME}' \
  -d ' {
    "name": "Dataset name",
    "description": "Dataset description",
    "schemaRef": {
        "id": "https://ns.adobe.com/{TENANT_ID}/schemas/{SCHEMA_ID},
        "contentType": "application/vnd.adobe.xed-full+json;version=1"
    },
    "tags": {
        "unifiedIdentity": ["enabled:true"],
        "unifiedProfile": ["enabled:true"]
    }
}'

Response

A successful response returns HTTP status 201 and an array containing the ID of the newly created dataset in the format @/dataSets/{DATASET_ID}.

[
    "@/dataSets/5e30d7986c0cc218a85cee65
]

Create a streaming connection

After creating your schema and dataset, you can create a streaming connection

For more information on creating a streaming connection, please read the create a streaming connection tutorial.

Ingest record data to the streaming connection

With the dataset and streaming connection in place, you can ingest XDM-formatted JSON records to ingest record data into Platform.

API format

POST /collection/{CONNECTION_ID}?syncValidation=true

Parameter	Description
`{CONNECTION_ID}`	The `inletId` value of the streaming connection previously created.
`syncValidation`	An optional query parameter intended for development purposes. If set to `true`, it can be used for immediate feedback to determine if the request was successfully sent. By default, this value is set to `false`. Please note that if you set this query parameter to `true` that the request will be rate limited to 60 times per minute per `CONNECTION_ID`.

Request

Ingesting record data to a streaming connection can be done either with or without the source name.

The example request below ingests a record with a missing source name to Platform. If a record is missing the source name, it will add the source ID from the streaming connection definition.

NOTE

The following API call does not require any authentication headers.

curl -X POST https://dcs.adobedc.net/collection/{CONNECTION_ID}?syncValidation=true \
  -H "Cache-Control: no-cache" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "header": {
        "schemaRef": {
            "id": "https://ns.adobe.com/{TENANT_ID}/schemas/{SCHEMA_ID}",
            "contentType": "application/vnd.adobe.xed-full+json;version=1"
        },
        "imsOrgId": "{ORG_ID}",
        "datasetId": "{DATASET_ID}",
        "flowId": "{FLOW_ID}",
    },
    "body": {
        "xdmMeta": {
            "schemaRef": {
                "id": "https://ns.adobe.com/{TENANT_ID}/schemas/{SCHEMA_ID}",
                "contentType": "application/vnd.adobe.xed-full+json;version=1"
            }
        },
        "xdmEntity": {
            "person": {
                "name": {
                    "firstName": "Jane",
                    "middleName": "F",
                    "lastName": "Doe"
                },
                "birthDate": "1969-03-14",
                "gender": "female"
            },
            "workEmail": {
                "primary": true,
                "address": "janedoe@example.com",
                "type": "work",
                "status": "active"
            }
        }
    }
}'

If you want to include a source name, the following example shows how you would include it.

    "header": {
        "schemaRef": {
            "id": "https://ns.adobe.com/{TENANT_ID}/schemas/{SCHEMA_ID}",
            "contentType": "application/vnd.adobe.xed-full+json;version=1"
        },
        "imsOrgId": "{ORG_ID}",
        "datasetId": "{DATASET_ID}",
        "source": {
            "name": "Sample source name"
        }
    }

Response

A successful response returns HTTP status 200 with details of the newly streamed Profile.

{
    "inletId": "{CONNECTION_ID}",
    "xactionId": "1584479347507:2153:240",
    "receivedTimeMs": 1584479347507,
    "syncValidation": {
        "status": "pass"
    }
}

Property	Description
`{CONNECTION_ID}`	The ID of the previously created streaming connection.
`xactionId`	A unique identifier generated server-side for the record you just sent. This ID helps Adobe trace this record’s lifecycle through various systems and with debugging.
`receivedTimeMs`	A timestamp (epoch in milliseconds) that shows what time the request was received.
`syncValidation.status`	Since the query parameter `syncValidation=true` was added, this value will appear. If the validation has succeeded, the status will be `pass`.

Retrieve the newly ingested record data

To validate the previously ingested records, you can use the Profile Access API to retrieve the record data.

NOTE

If the merge policy ID is not defined and the schema.name or relatedSchema.name is _xdm.context.profile, Profile Access will fetch all related identities.

API format

GET /access/entities
GET /access/entities?{QUERY_PARAMETERS}
GET /access/entities?schema.name=_xdm.context.profile&entityId=janedoe@example.com&entityIdNS=email

Parameter	Description
`schema.name`	Required. The name of the schema you are accessing.
`entityId`	The ID of the entity. If provided, you must also provide the entity namespace.
`entityIdNS`	The namespace of the ID you are trying to retrieve.

Request

You can review the previously ingested record data with the following GET request.

curl -X GET 'https://platform.adobe.io/data/core/ups/access/entities?schema.name=_xdm.context.profile&entityId=janedoe@example.com&entityIdNS=email'\
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer {ACCESS_TOKEN}' \
  -H 'x-api-key: {API_KEY}' \
  -H 'x-gw-ims-org-id: {ORG_ID}' \
  -H 'x-sandbox-name: {SANDBOX_NAME}'

Response

A successful response returns HTTP status 200 with details of the entities requested. As you can see, this is the same record that was successfully ingested earlier.

{
    "BVrqzwVv7o2p3naHvnsWpqZXv3KJgA": {
        "entityId": "BVrqzwVv7o2p3naHvnsWpqZXv3KJgA",
        "mergePolicy": {
            "id": "e161dae9-52f0-4c7f-b264-dc43dd903d56"
        },
        "sources": [
            "5e30d7986c0cc218a85cee65"
        ],
        "tags": [
            "1580346827274:2478:215"
        ],
        "identityGraph": [
            "BVrqzwVv7o2p3naHvnsWpqZXv3KJgA"
        ],
        "entity": {
            "person": {
                "name": {
                    "lastName": "Doe",
                    "middleName": "F",
                    "firstName": "Jane"
                },
                "gender": "female",
                "birthDate": "1969-03-14"
            },
            "workEmail": {
                "type": "work",
                "address": "janedoe@example.com",
                "status": "active",
                "primary": true
            },
            "identityMap": {
                "email": [
                    {
                        "id": "janedoe@example.com"
                    }
                ]
            }
        },
        "lastModifiedAt": "2020-01-30T01:13:59Z"
    }
}

Next steps

By reading this document, you now understand how to ingest record data into Platform using streaming connections. You can try making more calls with different values and retrieving the updated values. Additionally, you can start monitoring your ingested data through Platform UI. For more information, please read the monitoring data ingestion guide.

For more information about streaming ingestion in general, please read the streaming ingestion overview.

Stream record data using Streaming Ingestion APIs

Getting started

Using Platform APIs

Compose a schema based off of the XDM Individual Profile class

Set a primary identity descriptor for the schema

Request

Create a dataset for record data

Create a streaming connection

Ingest record data to the streaming connection

Retrieve the newly ingested record data

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