I'm using EventStore and want to post a message (event) to it. I use the HTTP API for testing purposes. I've managed to post the event itself, with an event type specified, but I can't figure out how to specify metadata for my event. (and I must provide this metadata because my consuming application on the other side expects it).
This is what my HTTP request looks like:
Content-Type: application/json
ES-EventType: My.own.event.type
POST http://10.0.75.2:2113/web/index.html#/streams/foobar
{
"props": "andvalues"
}
Do I specify metadata in the body in through headers? I can't find much docs about this, only the official that doesn't mention it.
The documentation mentions the full schema for an event being written. It looks like this:
[
{
"eventId" : "string",
"eventType" : "string",
"data" : "object",
"metadata" : "object"
}
]
For example:
[
{
"eventId": "fbf4a1a1-b4a3-4dfe-a01f-ec52c34e16e4",
"eventType": "event-type",
"data": { "a": "1" },
"metadata": { "b": "2" }
}
]
Note that it's an array, and that you must pass content-type as application/vnd.eventstore.events+json
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