On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Kasun Gajasinghe <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Amila Suriarachchi <[email protected]>wrote:
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>> On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 11:24 PM, Amila Suriarachchi <[email protected]>wrote:
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>>> On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 8:49 PM, Kasun Gajasinghe <[email protected]>wrote:
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>>>> I couldn't really find the different between the two. But I have
>>>> categorized the http request header info as metadata.
>>>>
>>>
>>> IIRC these concepts came from the SOAP message level.
>>>
>>> Payload data means the data it receives within the soap envelop. ie.
>>> things like tradeamount, tradeid etc.. Basically the business entities.
>>> Meta data was refers to the things related to generic http data.
>>>
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>> From this point of view we need to send query data in pay load and others
>> in meta data.
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> Currently, it's possible to send only a pre-defined set of data via the
> data agents (which we call as stream definition). So, for the default
> toolboxes, there is no way to predict what info a given message contains,
> and how to extract it. That is unless the user defines a new streamdef
> which may include the said properties like tradeamount, tradeid etc. And,
> user should have separate stream definition for each service because each
> service will have a different payload. This is my understanding.
>

IIRC we talk about sending this undefined fields using a map or some thing.
That may not have implemented. But I think it is better to define what is
payload data and what is metadata not to make any confusions.

thanks,
Amila.


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> If you take axis2 service data publishing for example, we have metadata,
> and payload data like the following. We can additionally send the whole
> message to BAM too (for activity service monitoring).
>
> Payload data -
> Service Name
> Op Name
> Timestamp
> Response Time
> Request count - will always be 1
> Response count - 0/1
> Fault count - 0/1
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> Additinally, if activity service enabled, it also send
> soap header
> soap body
> message direction
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> Metadata -
> Request URL
> Remote Address
> ContentType
> User Agent
> Host
> Referer
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> I'm not sure whether it's practical provide support for custom data.
>
> Thanks,
> KasunG
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> thanks,
>> Amila.
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>>>
>>> I think we better analyses those aspects across all data agents and have
>>> a consistent convention.
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>> Amila.
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 8:59 AM, Amila Suriarachchi <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 5:23 AM, Kasun Gajasinghe <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm trying to finalize the webapp request stats data that AS should
>>>>>> send to BAM. I have come with the following list of stats to be sent to 
>>>>>> BAM
>>>>>> as part of the Event Data. These are categorized in to payload data and
>>>>>> metadata. Please share your suggestions on these, and what other data we
>>>>>> can send.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We can also make it to send the request message body, and response
>>>>>> message body but it would add a significant overhead.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Currently, webapp developers need to add a a context-param called
>>>>>> 'enable.statistics' to the web.xml in webapps.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    <context-param>
>>>>>>        <param-name>*enable.statistics*</param-name>
>>>>>>        <param-value>true</param-value>
>>>>>>    </context-param>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> They can configure the webapp data agent configuration and BAM
>>>>>> credentials via the management console. The configuration is saved in the
>>>>>> registry of the given tenant. Each tenant has to configure the data agent
>>>>>> this way. This behavior is quite like the Service Data Agent 
>>>>>> configuration.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     streamId='bam_webapp_statistics_publisher:3.0.0',
>>>>>>     name='bam_webapp_statistics_publisher',
>>>>>>     version='1.0.0',
>>>>>>     nickName='WebappDataAgent',
>>>>>>     description='Publish webapp statistics events',
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Payload data -
>>>>>>
>>>>>> webappName
>>>>>> webappDisplayName       - The <display-name> set in web.xml
>>>>>> webappOwnerTenant
>>>>>> webappVersion           - web-app servlet version. Ex. 2.5, 3.0
>>>>>> timestamp
>>>>>> webappContext           - ex. /t/example.com/jaxwebapps/jaxrs_basic
>>>>>> resourcePath            - ex. For a request url of
>>>>>> http://localhost:9763/t/example.com/jaxwebapps/jaxrs_basic/services/customers/customerservice/customers/123,
>>>>>> the resource path will be /customers/customerservice/customers/123
>>>>>> webappType              - Possible values are JAX-WS/JAX-RS/Generic
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Metadata -
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> httpMethod              - The HTTP method of the request
>>>>>> contentType             - Content Type of the request
>>>>>> responseContentType     - Content Type of the response
>>>>>> responseHttpStatusCode  - HTTP status code of the response
>>>>>> userAgent               - client user-agent
>>>>>> remoteAddress           - client address
>>>>>> referer                 - HTTP referer header
>>>>>> authType                - Tomcat level authentication, if set. ex.
>>>>>> BASIC_AUTH.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> What is the convention you have followed to determine what is payload
>>>>> data and what is metadata.
>>>>>
>>>>> For me most of the meta data you have given specific to that request.
>>>>>
>>>>> thanks,
>>>>> Amilla.
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> KasunG
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