Universal Event Web Services

Universal Controller supports the following RESTful-based web service for Universal Events.

• Publish Universal Event
• Push Universal Event

Formatting specifications for the web service, including details about parameter requirements, are provided.

Authorization to publish or push a Universal Event is assigned by the Universal Event Create permission, or by the ops_admin role.

info

When publishing or pushing Universal Events through the Web Service API, take into consideration both Universal Controller server and Database server sizings.

Publish Universal Event

	Description
URI	http://host_name/uc/resources/universalevent/publish
Description	Publish a global Universal Event.
HTTP Method	POST
Example URI	http://localhost:8080/uc/resources/universalevent/publish
Authentication	HTTP Basic
Consumes Content-Type	application/xml, application/json
Produces Content-Type	text/plain
Example Responses	Status 200 Universal Event "{eventname}" published. Status 400 Invalid Time To Live. Value must be non-negative or empty. Universal Event attributes unknown for Universal Event Template "{eventname}". Universal Event attribute name required. Universal Event attribute "{attributename}" duplicated. Universal Event attribute "{attributename}" unknown for Universal Event Template "{eventname}". Universal Event attribute value "{attributevalue}" for attribute "{attributename}" is not a valid integer. Universal Event attribute value "{attributevalue}" for attribute "{attributename}" is not a valid float. Status 403 Operation prohibited due to security constraints. Status 404 Universal Event Template "{eventname}" not found. Status 500 Unexpected request failure. See log(s) for more details.

Publish Universal Event: XML and JSON Example Request

JSON

JSON

JSON

{
   "name": "ExampleEvent",
   "businessServices": [
      "BusinessServiceName1",
      "BusinessServiceName2"
    ],
    "ttl": 60,
    "attributes": [
       {
          "name": "example_attribute1",
          "value": "Value1"
       },
       {
          "name": "example_attribute2",
          "value": "Value2"
       }
    ]
}

XML

XML

XML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<universalEvent>
  <name>ExampleEvent</name>
  <businessServices>
    <businessService>BusinessServiceName1</businessService>
    <businessService>BusinessServiceName2</businessService>
  </businessServices>
  <ttl>60</ttl>
  <attributes>
    <attribute>
      <name>example_attribute1</name>
      <value>Value1</value>
    </attribute>
    <attribute>
      <name>example_attribute2</name>
      <value>Value2</value>
    </attribute>
  </attributes>
</universalEvent>

Push Universal Event

The push endpoint provides an Inbound Webhook endpoint for third party Webhook integration with Universal Events.

• The request body is captured as the payload attribute.
• ttl and businessService (multi-value) query parameters specify the Universal Event TTL and Member of Business Services, respectively.
• All other query parameters are captured as attributes with the exception of an access_tokenquery parameter.
  • Any character in a query parameter name that is not a letter or digit is converted to an underscore (_).
• All headers are captured as attributes with the exception of authorization and connection.
  • Any character in a header name that is not a letter or digit is converted to an underscore (_).

	Description
URL	http://host_name/uc/resources/universalevent/push/${eventName}
HTTP Method	POST info If you cannot use the POST HTTP Method, you can alternatively use the GET HTTP Method with the payload specified as a query parameter.
Description	Publish a global Universal Event.
Consumes Content-Type	application/xml, application/json, text/plain, text/xml
Produces Content-Type	text/plain
Example URI	http://localhost:8080/uc/resources/universalevent/push/MyUniversalEvent?ttl=0&businessService=A&businessService=B&query_parameter1=value1
Example Responses	Status 200 Universal Event "{eventname}" published. Status 400 Invalid Time To Live. Value must be non-negative or empty. Universal Event Template "{eventname}" not found. Status 403 Operation prohibited due to security constraints. Status 404 Universal Event Template "{eventname}" not found. Status 500 Unexpected request failure. See log(s) for more details.