Create an Amazon Kinesis source connection using the Flow Service API

This tutorial walks you through the steps to connect Amazon Kinesis (hereinafter referred to as “Kinesis”) 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 Kinesis to Platform using the Flow Service API.

Gather required credentials

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

For more information on Kinesis access keys and how to generate them, refer to this AWS guide on managing access keys for IAM users.

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 Kinesis 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 Kinesis authentication credentials as part of the request parameters.

API format

POST /connections

Request

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": "Amazon Kinesis connection",
        "description": "Connector for Amazon Kinesis",
        "providerId": "521eee4d-8cbe-4906-bb48-fb6bd4450033",
        "auth": {
            "specName": "Aws Kinesis authentication credentials",
            "params": {
                "accessKeyId": "{ACCESS_KEY_ID}",
                "secretKey": "{SECRET_KEY}",
                "region": "{REGION}"
            }
        },
        "connectionSpec": {
            "id": "86043421-563b-46ec-8e6c-e23184711bf6",
            "version": "1.0"
        }
    }'

Response

A successful response returns details of the newly created base connection, including its unique identifier (id). This ID is required in the next step to create a source connection.

{
    "id": "4cb0c374-d3bb-4557-b139-5712880adc55",
    "etag": "\"6507cfd8-0000-0200-0000-5e18fc600000\""
}

Create a source connection source

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 the 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 '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": "AWS Kinesis source connection",
        "description": "A source connection for AWS Kinesis",
        "baseConnectionId": "4cb0c374-d3bb-4557-b139-5712880adc55",
        "connectionSpec": {
            "id": "86043421-563b-46ec-8e6c-e23184711bf6",
            "version": "1.0"
        },
        "data": {
            "format": "json"
        },
        "params": {
            "stream": "{STREAM}",
            "dataType": "raw",
            "reset": "latest"
        }
    }'

Response

A successful response returns the unique identifier (id) of the newly created source connection. This ID is required in the next tutorial to create a dataflow.

{
    "id": "e96d6135-4b50-446e-922c-6dd66672b6b2",
    "etag": "\"66013508-0000-0200-0000-5f6e2ae70000\""
}

Next steps

By following this tutorial, you have created a Kinesis 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.