Create an Azure Event Hubs source connection using the Flow Service API

This tutorial provides steps to create a Azure Event Hubs (hereinafter referred to as “Event Hubs”) to Experience Platform, using the Flow Service API.

Getting started

This guide requires a working understanding of the following components of Adobe Experience Platform:

The following sections provide additional information that you will need to know in order to successfully connect Event Hubs to Platform using the Flow Service API.

Gather required credentials

In order for Flow Service to connect with your Event Hubs account, you must provide values for the following connection properties:

For more information about these values, refer to this Event Hubs document.

Using Platform APIs

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

Create a base connection

The first step in creating a source connection is to authenticate your Event Hubs source and generate a base connection ID. A base connection ID allows you to explore and navigate files from within your source and identify specific items that you want to ingest, including information regarding their data types and formats.

To create a base connection ID, make a POST request to the /connections endpoint while providing your Event Hubs authentication credentials as part of the request parameters.

API format

POST /connections

curl -X POST \
  'https://platform.adobe.io/data/foundation/flowservice/connections' \
  -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}' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
      "name": "Azure Event Hubs connection",
      "description": "Connector for Azure Event Hubs",
      "auth": {
          "specName": "Azure EventHub authentication credentials",
          "params": {
              "sasKeyName": "{SAS_KEY_NAME}",
              "sasKey": "{SAS_KEY}",
              "namespace": "{NAMESPACE}"
          }
      },
      "connectionSpec": {
          "id": "bf9f5905-92b7-48bf-bf20-455bc6b60a4e",
          "version": "1.0"
      }
  }'

{
    "id": "4cdbb15c-fb1e-46ee-8049-0f55b53378fe",
    "etag": "\"6507cfd8-0000-0200-0000-5e18fc600000\""
}

curl -X POST \
  'https://platform.adobe.io/data/foundation/flowservice/connections' \
  -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}' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
      "name": "Azure Event Hubs connection",
      "description": "Connector for Azure Event Hubs",
      "auth": {
          "specName": "Azure EventHub authentication credentials",
          "params": {
              "sasKeyName": "{SAS_KEY_NAME}",
              "sasKey": "{SAS_KEY}",
              "namespace": "{NAMESPACE}",
              "eventHubName": "{EVENT_HUB_NAME}
          }
      },
      "connectionSpec": {
          "id": "bf9f5905-92b7-48bf-bf20-455bc6b60a4e",
          "version": "1.0"
      }
  }'

{
    "id": "4cdbb15c-fb1e-46ee-8049-0f55b53378fe",
    "etag": "\"6507cfd8-0000-0200-0000-5e18fc600000\""
}

Create a source connection

A source connection creates and manages the connection to the external source from where data is ingested. A source connection consists of information like data source, data format, and a source connection ID needed to create a dataflow. A source connection instance is specific to a tenant and organization.

To create a source connection, make a POST request to the /sourceConnections endpoint of the Flow Service API.

API format

POST /sourceConnections

Request

curl -X POST \
  'https://platform.adobe.io/data/foundation/flowservice/sourceConnections' \
  -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": "Azure Event Hubs source connection",
      "description": "A source connection for Azure Event Hubs",
      "baseConnectionId": "4cdbb15c-fb1e-46ee-8049-0f55b53378fe",
      "connectionSpec": {
          "id": "bf9f5905-92b7-48bf-bf20-455bc6b60a4e",
          "version": "1.0"
      },
      "data": {
          "format": "json"
      },
      "params": {
          "eventHubName": "{EVENT_HUB_NAME}",
          "dataType": "raw",
          "reset": "latest",
          "consumerGroup": "{CONSUMER_GROUP}"
      }
  }'

Next steps

By following this tutorial, you have created an Event Hubs source connection using the Flow Service API. You can use this source connection ID in the next tutorial to create a streaming dataflow using the Flow Service API.