File Storage Events

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You can trigger webhooks on any file storage operations (create/delete) performed via Space Cloud.

Create file storage event trigger

Open a project in Mission Control, head to the Event Triggers section and click on the Add button to open the form below:

File storage event trigger

Parameters

Trigger Name

Give a unique name for an event trigger. (e.g., upload-profile-pic )

Source

Select File Storage as the event source.

Trigger operation

Select the file storage operation for which you want to create the event trigger. Can be one of:

Write: When a file/folder gets written/created.
Delete: When a file/folder gets deleted.

Webhook URL

The HTTP(s) URL that should get triggered with the event payload on the configured operation. Must be a POST handler.

Advanced settings

Retries

The number of times to retry a failed invocation. Default value is 3.

Timeout

Timeout in milliseconds. Default value is 5000.

Delivery mechanism

The webhook is delivered over HTTP POST request to the specified webhook URL with the following headers:

Content-Type: application/json

Event payload

The POST body of the webhook is a JSON object which follows the Cloud Events specs:

{
  "specversion": "1.0-rc1",
  "id": "<unique-uuid>",
  "type": "<event-type>",
  "source": "<space-cloud-node-id>",
  "time": "<date-string>",
  "data": {
    "path": "<file-path>",
    "meta": "Object"
  }
}

Key	Type	Description
specversion	String	Version of the Cloud Events specifications.
id	String	A unique identifier of an event.
type	String	Event type. One of `FILE_CREATE` or `FILE_DELETE` .
source	String	Unique identifier of a Space Cloud instance.
time	String	Time at which the event occurred(ISO 8601 format).
data.path	String	Path of the concerned file/folder.
data.meta	String	`meta` object sent by the client while creating/deleting file.

For example:

{
  "specversion" : "1.0-rc1",
  "id": "43e32d79-f2bf-41c0-be5f-a75c8c1bcfbf",
  "type": "DB_INSERT",
  "source": "1fb07d5d-b670-468e-ba94-ad5f06a5c053",
  "time": "2019-10-19T12:40:50.053Z",
  "data": {
    "path": "/users/1/profile.jpg",
    "meta": {
      "file_size": 100,
      "upload_date": "2019-10-19T12:40:50.053Z"
    }
  }
}

Note: The meta object is not generated by Space Cloud. It is an optional field sent by the client as a stringified JSON in the formdata at meta key while creating/deleting a file/folder.

Webhook response structure

A 2xx response status code from the webhook target is deemed to be a successful invocation of the webhook. Any other response status results in an unsuccessful invocation that causes retries as per the retry configuration.

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