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This section describes the following main methods available to send WSO2 events to Agent broker via Custom Data Publishers.

• Java API (See Example in KPI Analyzer).
• REST API (See Example in Build Analyzer).

In both methods above, we can publish data in 3 ways as follows.

• Data Publisher
• AsyncDataPublisher
• Load Balancing DataPublisher

When publishing data in above mentioned ways, Before sending events we need to using any of the three methods mentioned above, you should define the stream definition to send data before sending events.All the values that are send  

Supporting Arbitrary Key-Value Pairs in WSO2 Events 

Although in previous CEP release versions, all values sent in the event must match with the stream definition (In previous CEP versions) but , CEP version 2.1.0 supports and after have support to send arbitrary key-value pairs which are not defined in the stream.Below, we have discussed further regarding that.

Supporting arbitrary key-value pairs in WSO2 events 

Our previous CEP versions are not support to send arbitrary key-value values which are not defined in the stream. But WSO2 CEP 2.1.0 version supports to send arbitrary key-value pairs. This only can be done using the agent default Agent broker provided in CEP by default.

When sending Send the arbitrary value , it needs to be send as in Map data format and both the key and value pair needs to be -value pairs in String format. 

1. Creating Create the agent and datapublisher data publisher to publish the data as follows.

AgentConfiguration agentConfiguration = new AgentConfiguration();
Agent agent = new Agent(agentConfiguration);
        
DataPublisher dataPublisher = new DataPublisher("tcp://localhost:7611", "admin", "admin", agent);

2. Defining  Define the stream as shown below.  

streamId = dataPublisher.defineStream("{" +
                                                  "  'name':'" + PHONE_RETAIL_STREAM + "'," +
                                                  "  'version':'" + VERSION + "'," +
                                                  "  'nickName': 'Phone_Retail_Shop'," +
                                                  "  'description': 'Phone Sales'," +
                                                  "  'metaData':[" +
                                                  "          {'name':'clientType','type':'STRING'}" +
                                                  "  ]," +
                                                  "  'payloadData':[" +
                                                  "          {'name':'brand','type':'STRING'}," +
                                                  "          {'name':'quantity','type':'INT'}," +
                                                  "          {'name':'total','type':'INT'}," +
                                                  "  ]" +
                                                  "}");

3. Publishing Publish the data as follows.

Event eventOne = new Event(streamId, System.currentTimeMillis(), new Object[]{"external"}, null,
                                   new Object[]{"IBM", 45, 2500});

dataPublisher.publish(eventOne); 

Here if we want Follow the steps below to publish the name of the buyer which that is not defined in the Stream, then we need do the below steps.

4. Defining Define a Map (To send the key-value pair).

Map arbitraryData = new HashMap<String,String>();
arbitraryData.put("buyer","Joe");

5. Publish the map with the event.

Event eventOne = new Event(streamId, System.currentTimeMillis(), new Object[]{"external"}, null,
                                   new Object[]{"IBM", 45, 2500},arbitraryData);

dataPublisher.publish(eventOne);