Sending an event with metadata using curl

EventStoreDB
1

Hi,

I followed this manual:

http://docs.geteventstore.com/http-api/3.0.0/writing-to-a-stream/

and managed to find the right formula that pushes an event to a stream:

curl -i [email protected] “http://localhost:2113/streams/MyStream” -H “Content-Type:application/json” -H “ES-EventType: MyEventType” -H “ES-EventId: b32643e9-a7b8-4221-b33b-df13f9ecfe0c” -u “admin:changeit”

That allows me to send event’s data. I’m wondering how to modify this command in order to be able to include event’s metadata as well.

2

In order to post an event with metadata, you will need to use Event Store’s custom event content type, “application/vnd.eventstore.event+json”

So you would create your json representation of your event with metadata like so (note that it includes the event ID and type):

[
{
“eventId”:“6b98dfef-7ffb-49d5-9017-c3788508f986”,
“eventType”:“MyEventType”,
“data”: {
“Foo”: “Bar”
},
“metadata”: {
“$maxAge”:“2000”,
}
}
]

And post your event using a command like this:

3

Cool - that works fine. Thank you!