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Developer Guide

The docker setup comes with a full stack of Kafka tools and utilities including Kafka Connect

  • Kafka broker
  • Zookeeper
  • Kafka Rest proxy
  • Kafka Topics UI
  • Kafka Connect, with the AEP Sink Connector installed.

Once the docker is running, you should be able to test the entire setup using a rest api to insert the message into your local docker kafka topic.

Build Docker locally and Run

./gradlew clean build
docker build -t streaming-connect .
docker-compose up -d

Configuration Options

The AEP connector is a uber jar containing all the classfiles and its third-party dependencies. To install the connector, drop the jar file into the plug in directory of Kafka connect installation.

AEP Sink connector configurations can be supplied in the call register the connector.

Config Name Description Default Required Example
topics comma separated list of topics yes
connector.class classname of impl com.adobe.platform.streaming.sink.impl.AEPSinkConnector yes
key.converter.schemas.enable enables conversion of schemas false no
value.converter.schemas.enable enables conversion of schemas false no
aep.endpoint aep streaming endpoint url yes
aep.connection.proxy.host address of the proxy host to connect through no
aep.connection.proxy.port port of the proxy host to connect through 443 no
aep.connection.proxy.user username for the proxy host no
aep.connection.proxy.password password for the proxy host no
aep.connection.auth.enabled required for authenticated streaming endpoint false no
aep.connection.auth.token.type always set to access_token access_token no
aep.connection.auth.client.id IMS client id no
aep.connection.auth.client.code IMS client code no
aep.connection.auth.client.secret IME client secret no
aep.flush.bytes.kb bytes threshold to determine the batch 4 no

Step-by-Step Workflow

Build

./gradlew clean build

Build docker

docker build -t streaming-connect .

Running Docker

docker-compose up -d

Tail Docker logs

docker logs experience-platform-streaming-connect_kafka-connect_1 -f

Manage running connectors

Kafka Connect exposes a set of REST APIs to manage connect instances.

List of running connectors

curl -X GET http://localhost:8083/connectors

Create a Streaming Connection

In order to send streaming data, you must first request a Streaming Connection from Adobe by providing some essential properties. Data Inlet Registration APIs are behind adobe.io gateway, so the first step in requesting a new endpoint, is to either use your existing authentication token and API key combination, or to create a new integration through Adobe I/O console. More information about adobe.io based authentication is available here.

Once you have an IMS access token and API key, it needs to be provided as part of the POST request.

Note that the sandbox-name is optional, if not provided will default to the Production sandbox.

curl -X POST https://platform.adobe.io/data/foundation/flowservice/connections \
 -H 'Authorization: Bearer {ACCESS_TOKEN}' \
 -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
 -H 'x-gw-ims-org-id: {IMS_ORG}' \
 -H 'x-api-key: {API_KEY}' \
 -H 'x-sandbox-name: {SANDBOX_NAME}' \
 -d '{
     "name": "Sample Streaming Connection",
     "providerId": "521eee4d-8cbe-4906-bb48-fb6bd4450033",
     "description": "Sample description",
     "connectionSpec": {
         "id": "bc7b00d6-623a-4dfc-9fdb-f1240aeadaeb",
         "version": "1.0"
     },
     "auth": {
         "specName": "Streaming Connection",
         "params": {
             "sourceId": "Sample connection source",
             "dataType": "xdm",
             "name": "Sample connection"
         }
     }
 }

If the request was successful a new Streaming Connection should be created for you. The response will looking similar to the one below. The id field in the response is the Connection Id.

{
    "id": "77a05521-91d6-451c-a055-2191d6851c34",
    "etag": "\"a500e689-0000-0200-0000-5e31df730000\""
}

With the connection created, you can now retrieve your data collection URL from the connection information.

curl -X GET https://platform.adobe.io/data/foundation/flowservice/connections/{CONNECTION_ID} \
 -H 'Authorization: Bearer {ACCESS_TOKEN}' \
 -H 'x-gw-ims-org-id: {IMS_ORG}' \
 -H 'x-api-key: {API_KEY}' \
 -H 'x-sandbox-name: {SANDBOX_NAME}'
{
    "items": [
        {
            "createdAt": 1583971856947,
            "updatedAt": 1583971856947,
            "createdBy": "{API_KEY}",
            "updatedBy": "{API_KEY}",
            "createdClient": "{USER_ID}",
            "updatedClient": "{USER_ID}",
            "id": "77a05521-91d6-451c-a055-2191d6851c34",
            "name": "Another new sample connection (Experience Event)",
            "description": "Sample description",
            "connectionSpec": {
                "id": "bc7b00d6-623a-4dfc-9fdb-f1240aeadaeb",
                "version": "1.0"
            },
            "state": "enabled",
            "auth": {
                "specName": "Streaming Connection",
                "params": {
                    "sourceId": "Sample connection (ExperienceEvent)",
                    "inletUrl": "https://dcs.adobedc.net/collection/a868e1ce678a911ef1482b083329af3cafa4bafdc781285f25911eaae9e00eb2",
                    "inletId": "a868e1ce678a911ef1482b083329af3cafa4bafdc781285f25911eaae9e00eb2",
                    "dataType": "xdm",
                    "name": "Sample connection (ExperienceEvent)"
                }
            },
            "version": "\"56008aee-0000-0200-0000-5e697e150000\"",
            "etag": "\"56008aee-0000-0200-0000-5e697e150000\""
        }
    ]
}

The inletUrl in the response above is the AEP Streaming Connection to which the real time events will be getting sinked to.

Run AEP Streaming Connector

Once the Connect server is running on port 8083, you can use REST APIs to launch multiple instances of connectors.

Basic

curl -s -X POST \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data '{
  "name": "aep-sink-connector",
  "config": {
    "topics": "connect-test",
    "tasks.max": 1,
    "aep.flush.interval.seconds": 1,
    "aep.flush.bytes.kb": 4,
    "connector.class": "com.adobe.platform.streaming.sink.impl.AEPSinkConnector",
    "key.converter.schemas.enable": "false",
    "value.converter.schemas.enable": "false",
    "aep.endpoint": "https://dcs.adobedc.net/collection/{DATA_INLET_ID}"
  }
}' http://localhost:8083/connectors

Authentication Enabled

Use the command below to set up a Sink connector to a Authenticated Streaming Connection:

  1. Using access_token
curl -s -X POST \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data '{
  "name": "aep-auth-sink-connector",
  "config": {
    "topics": "connect-test",
    "tasks.max": 1,
    "aep.flush.interval.seconds": 1,
    "aep.flush.bytes.kb": 4,
    "connector.class": "com.adobe.platform.streaming.sink.impl.AEPSinkConnector",
    "key.converter.schemas.enable": "false",
    "value.converter.schemas.enable": "false",
    "aep.endpoint": "https://dcs.adobedc.net/collection/{DATA_INLET_ID}",
    "aep.connection.auth.enabled": true,
    "aep.connection.auth.token.type": "access_token",
    "aep.connection.auth.client.id": "<client_id>",
    "aep.connection.auth.client.code": "<client_code>",
    "aep.connection.auth.client.secret": "<client_secret>"
  }
}' http://localhost:8083/connectors
  1. Using jwt_token
  • Convert private.key from adobe console to PKCS8 private using command
openssl pkcs8 -topk8 -inform PEM -outform DER -in private.key -out private-pkcs8.key -nocrypt
  • Create http connector
curl -s -X POST \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data '{
  "name": "aep-auth-sink-connector",
  "config": {
    "topics": "connect-test",
    "tasks.max": 1,
    "aep.flush.interval.seconds": 1,
    "aep.flush.bytes.kb": 4,
    "connector.class": "com.adobe.platform.streaming.sink.impl.AEPSinkConnector",
    "key.converter.schemas.enable": "false",
    "value.converter.schemas.enable": "false",
    "aep.endpoint": "https://dcs.adobedc.net/collection/{DATA_INLET_ID}",
    "aep.connection.auth.enabled": true,
    "aep.connection.auth.token.type": "jwt_token",
    "aep.connection.auth.client.id": "<client_id>",
    "aep.connection.auth.imsOrg": "<organization-id>",
    "aep.connection.auth.accountKey": "<technical-account-id>",
    "aep.connection.auth.filePath": "<path-to-private-pkcs8.key>",
    "aep.connection.auth.endpoint": "<ims-url>",
    "aep.connection.endpoint.headers": "<optional-header-that-needs-to-be-passed-to-AEP>"
    "aep.connection.auth.client.secret": "<client_secret>"
  }
}' http://localhost:8083/connectors

Note - aep.connection.endpoint.headers format should be comma separated. Example: To send below 2 http header -

  1. key: x-adobe-flow-id, value: 341fd4f0-cdec-4912-1ab6-fb54aeb41286
  2. key: x-adobe-dataset-id, value: 3096fbfd5978431948af3ba3

Use aep.connection.endpoint.headers value -

{'x-adobe-flow-id':'341fd4f0-cdec-4912-1ab6-fb54aeb41286','x-adobe-dataset-id': '3096fbfd5978431948af3ba3'}

Batching

Use the command below to set up an Sink connector to batch up requests and reduce the number of network calls

curl -s -X POST \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data '{
  "name": "aep-batch-sink-connector",
  "config": {
    "topics": "connect-test",
    "tasks.max": 1,
    "aep.flush.interval.seconds": 1,
    "aep.flush.bytes.kb": 20,
    "connector.class": "com.adobe.platform.streaming.sink.impl.AEPSinkConnector",
    "key.converter.schemas.enable": "false",
    "value.converter.schemas.enable": "false",
    "aep.endpoint": "https://dcs.adobedc.net/collection/{DATA_INLET_ID}",
  }
}' http://localhost:8083/connectors

Dead Letter Configuration

To send error records to dead letter topic please use standard kafka connector error configuration.

Kafka connect dead letter configurations : https://docs.confluent.io/platform/current/connect/concepts.html#dead-letter-queue

Poxy host configuration

There are 2 ways to route request to aep endpoint through proxy server :

  1. Using Environment Variable : Export poxyHost and proxyPort on each kafka node, then restart kafka connect node.

    For HTTPS use following :

    export KAFKA_OPTS="-Dhttps.proxyHost=127.0.0.1 -Dhttps.proxyPort=8085 -Dhttps.proxyUser=proxyUsername -Dhttps.proxyPassword=proxyPassword"
    

    For HTTP use following:

    export KAFKA_OPTS="-Dhttp.proxyHost=127.0.0.1 -Dhttp.proxyPort=8085 -Dhttp.proxyUser=proxyUsername -Dhttp.proxyPassword=proxyPassword"
    
  2. Using Connector Properties : While creating connector set following properties, default values mentioned in connect configurations.

    aep.connection.proxy.host                                                          
    aep.connection.proxy.port
    aep.connection.proxy.user
    aep.connection.proxy.password
    

For reference, more details are in oracle documentation on configuring proxy settings in java : https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/net/proxies.html

Use the Kafka Topics UI to view your topics

The docker setup comes with Topics UI to view the topic and messages within. Open a browser and go to http://localhost:8000 and view the connect-test topic

Topics UI

In order to test the flow, you can use the following curl command to post a message into the Kafka topic using the Kafka rest proxy. Please ensure that the curl command uses your inlet endpoint, and the schema of the XDM message corresponding to your setup.

curl -X POST \
  http://localhost:8082/topics/connect-test \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/vnd.kafka.json.v2+json' \
  -H 'Host: localhost:8082' \
  -d '{
  "records": [{
    "value": {
      "header": {
        "schemaRef": {
          "id": "<schema-id>",
          "contentType": "application/vnd.adobe.xed-full+json;version=1"
        },
        "msgId": "1553542044760:1153:5",
        "source": {
          "name": "POCEvent1122ew2"
        },
        "msgVersion": "1.0",
        "imsOrgId": "0DD379AC5B117F6E0A494106@AdobeOrg"
      },
      "body": {
        "xdmMeta": {
          "schemaRef": {
            "id": "<schema-id>",
            "contentType": "application/vnd.adobe.xed-full+json;version=1"
          }
        },
        "xdmEntity": {
          "identityMap": {
            "email": [{
              "id": "ninair@adobe.com"
            }]
          },
          "_id": "1553542044071",
          "timestamp": "2019-03-25T19:27:24Z",
          "_msft_cds_acp": {
            "productListItems": {
              "priceTotal": 10,
              "name": "prod1",
              "_id": "1212121",
              "SKU": "13455"
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }]
}'

You will be able to see the message written to the "connect-test" topic in the Local Kafka cluster, which is picked up by the AEP Streaming Sink Connector and sent the AEP Streaming inlet.