Cloud Connector extension overview

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The Cloud Connector event forwarding extension allows you to create custom HTTP requests to send data to a destination or retrieve data from a destination. The Cloud Connector extension is like having Postman on Adobe Experience Platform Edge Network and can be used to send data to an endpoint that does not have a dedicated extension yet.

Use this reference for information about the options available when using this extension to build a rule.

Cloud Connector extension action type

This section describes the Send Data action type available in the Adobe Experience Platform Cloud Connector extension.

Request type

To select the type of request required by the endpoint, select the appropriate type under the Request Type dropdown.

Method
Description
GET
Requests a representation of the specified resource. Requests using GET should only retrieve data.
POST
Submits an entity to the specified resource, often causing a change in state or side effects on the server.
PUT
Replaces all current representations of the target resource with the request payload.
PATCH
Applies partial modifications to a resource.
DELETE
Deletes the specified resource.

Endpoint URL

In the text field next to the Request type dropdown menu, enter the URL for the endpoint to which you are sending data.

Query params, headers, and body configuration

Use each of these tabs (Query Params, Headers, and Body Data Elements) to control what data is sent to a given endpoint.

Query Params

Define a key and value for each key-value pair you want to send as a query string parameter. To manually enter a data element, use the curly brace data element tokenization for event forwarding. To reference the value of a data element named “siteSection” as a key or value, enter {{siteSection}}. Or, select the previously-created data element by selecting it in the dropdown menu.

To add more query parameters, select Add Another.

Headers

Define a key and value for each key-value pair you want to send as a header. To manually enter a data element, use the curly brace data element tokenization for event forwarding. To reference the value of a data element named “pageName” as a key or value, enter {{pageName}}. Or, select the previously created data element by selecting it in the dropdown menu.

To add more headers, select Add Another.

The following table lists the predefined headers. You are not limited to these headers and can add your own custom headers if required, but they are made available for your convenience.

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For more detailed information on these headers, visit https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers.
Header
Description
A-IM
Accept
Accept-Charset
Accept-Encoding
Accept-Language
Accept-Datetime
Transmitted by a user agent to indicate it wants to access a past state of an original resource. To that end, the Accept-Datetime header is conveyed in an HTTP request issued against a TimeGate for an original resource, and its value indicates the datetime of the desired past state of the original resource.
Access-Control-Request-Headers
Used by browsers when issuing a preflight request, to let the server know which HTTP headers the client might send when the actual request is made.
Access-Control-Request-Method
Used by browsers when issuing a preflight request, to let the server know which HTTP method will be used when the actual request is made. This header is necessary because the preflight request is always an OPTION and doesn’t use the same method as the actual request.
Authorization
Contains the credentials to authenticate a user-agent with a server.
Cache-Control
Directives for caching mechanisms in both requests and responses.
Connection
Controls whether the network connection stays open after the current transaction finishes.
Content-Length
The size of the resource, in decimal number of bytes.
Content-Type
Indicates the media type of the resource.
Cookie
Contains stored HTTP cookies previously sent by the server with the Set-Cookie header.
Date
General HTTP header contains the date and time at which the message was originated.
DNT
Expresses the user’s tracking preference.
Expect
Indicates expectations that need to be fulfilled by the server in order to properly handle the request.
Forwarded
Contains information from the reverse proxy servers that is altered or lost when a proxy is involved in the path of the request.
From
Contains an Internet email address for a human user who controls the requesting user agent.
Host
Specifies the host and port number of the server to which the request is being sent.
If-Match
If-Modified-Since
If-None-Match
If-Range
If-Unmodified-Since
Max-Forwards
Origin
Pragma
Implementation-specific header that may have various effects anywhere along the request-response chain. Used for backwards compatibility with HTTP/1.0 caches where the Cache-Control header is not yet present.
Proxy-Authorization
Range
Indicates the part of a document that the server should return.
Referer
The address of the previous web page from which a link to the currently requested page was followed.
TE
Specifies the transfer encodings the user agent is willing to accept. (You could informally call it Accept-Transfer-Encoding, which would be more intuitive).
Upgrade
The relevant RFC document for the Upgrade header field is RFC 7230, section 6.7. The standard establishes rules for upgrading or changing to a different protocol on the current client, server, transport protocol connection. For example, this header standard allows a client to change from HTTP 1.1 to HTTP 2.0, assuming the server decides to acknowledge and implement the Upgrade header field. Neither party is required to accept the terms specified in the Upgrade header field. It can be used in both client and server headers. If the Upgrade header field is specified, then the sender MUST also send the Connection header field with the upgrade option specified.
User-Agent
Contains a characteristic string that allows the network protocol peers to identify the application type, operating system, software vendor or software version of the requesting software user agent.
Via
Added by proxies, both forward and reverse proxies, and can appear in the request headers and the response headers.
Warning
General warning information about possible problems.
X-CSRF-Token
X-Requested-With

Body as JSON

Define a key and value for each key-value pair you want to send in the body of the request. To manually enter a data element, use the curly brace data element tokenization for event forwarding. To reference the value of a data element named “appSection” as a key or value, enter {{appSection}}. Or, select the previously-created data element by selecting it in the dropdown menu.

To add additional key-value pairs, select Add Another.

Body as Raw

Define a key and value for each key-value pair you want to send in the body of the request. To manually enter a data element, use the curly brace data element tokenization for event forwarding. To reference the value of a data element named “appSection” as a key or value, enter {{appSection}}. Or, select the previously created data element by selecting it in the dropdown menu. You can add one or more data elements.

Advanced

Actions within rules in event forwarding execute sequentially. There could be situations where you want to retrieve data from an external source that is not present on the incoming event from the client and then take this response and either transform or send this data to a final destination in a subsequent action within a single rule. The “Save the request response” in the advanced section enables this.

To save the response body from an endpoint check the Save the request response box and define a response key in the text field.

If you defined the response key as productDetails, reference this data in a data element and then reference this data element in a subsequent action within the same rule. To create a data element that references productDetail, create a data element of type path and enter the following path:

arc.ruleStash.[EXTENSION-NAME-HERE].responses.[RESPONSE-KEY-HERE]

arc.ruleStash.adobe-cloud-connector.reponses.productDetails
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