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chore: improve event and custom metadata docs (#90)
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yordis committed Jun 7, 2023
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turn the event's body into binary data. If the content-type is
`"application/json"`, the EventStoreDB and Spear (in
`Spear.Event.from_read_response/2`)
* `:custom_metadata` - (default: `""`) an event field outside of the body
* `:custom_metadata` - (default: `""`) an event field outside the body
meant as a bag for storing custom attributes about an event. Usage of this
field is not obligatory: leaving it blank is perfectly normal.
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]
```
## Event Store DB Event Metadata
All names starting with $ are reserved space for internal use, the most commonly used are the following:
- `$correlationId`: The application level correlation ID associated with this message.
- `$causationId`: The application level causation ID associated with this message.
In order to use these fields, you must pass them as custom metadata:
```elixir
iex> custom_metadata = Jason.encode!(%{"$correlationId" => "...", "$causationId" => "..."})
...> Spear.Event.new("my_event", %{"id" => 1}, custom_metadata: custom_metadata)
%Spear.Event{
id: "d77c1abc-0200-4804-81cd-eca726911166",
type: "my_event",
body: %{"id" => 1},
link: nil,
metadata: %{
content_type: "application/json",
custom_metadata: "{\"$causationId\":\"...\",\"$correlationId\":\"...\"}"
}
}
```
> #### Custom Metadata Format {: .tip}
>
> In order to leverage the EventStoreDB System Projections such as `$by_correlation_id` or JS Projections; you must
> pass the custom metadata as JSON.
## Examples
File.stream!("data.csv")
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