Local event feeds reference variables

General Discussions
1

Hi There,

I’m playing with a local version of the Event Feeds application to generate data for my subscribers. So far the experience has been great. However I have 2 issues:

  1. I set a value in the topic based off a enum array. In my payload I want to use that variable in the payload and concatenate it.

e.g. topic set
“orderno”: {
“schema”: {
“type”: “string”
},
“rule”: {
“name”: “orderno”,
“type”: “string”,
“group”: “StringRules”,
“rule”: “enum”,
“enum”: [
“38405802”,
“45937282”,
“23402384”,
“34802372”
]
}
},

In my payload I’m trying to do the following but the generator treats it as a static.

“callback”: {
“schema” : {
“type”: “string”
},
“rule”: {
“name”: “callback”,
“type”: “string”,
“group”: “StringRules”,
“rule”: “static”,
“static”: “https://acme.com/orders/${orderno}”
}
},

current data generated = https://acme.com/orders/${orderno}
desired output = https://acme.com/orders/38405802

  1. I want to use a past date. Works fine but is in the wrong format I have tried this but has no affect.

“rule”: {
“name”: “orderDate”,
“type”: “string”,
“group”: “DateRules”,
“rule”: “past”,
“years”: “12”,
“format”: “yyyy-MM-dd”,

Feel free to comment on either thanks in advance.

James

2

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I don’t see any information in the documentation about configuring Event Feeds or using variables in payloads and date formatting. The provided documentation only covers Insights configuration for self-managed software event brokers and some REST-related community discussions.

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3

Hi @jdttaylor - Thanks for trying the stm feeds tool, and feedback. Much appreciated.

On the issue 1 - Unfortunately the current scheme does not support any manipulation (like concatenation and the likes). It supports field leval rules for data generation. We will consider support for this in the future.

On the issue 2 - Nice catch - for the past, future and recent rules, we just took the time window as the parameter. Should be easy to incorporate support for date formats, we will look into this in the next release.

I have opened Git issues on these

Will keep you posted on this thread.