Azure Purview - Publish and Subscribe to Kafka Topics via Eventhubs

This sample documents and showcases how you can publish and subscribe to Azure Purview events through a Kafka Topic via Eventhubs. It documents the different payload expected formats and corresponding samples including how to log custom lineage via Eventhubs.

This sample is meant to complement the official Microsoft documentation.

Table of Contents

• Publish
  • Known Issues
  • How to use the sample
  • Publish Payload Formats
    • ENTITY_CREATE_V2 and ENTITY_FULL_UPDATE_V2
    • ENTITY_PARTIAL_UPDATE_V2
    • ENTITY_DELETE_V2
    • ENTITY_OBJECT_ID
• Subscribe
  • Supported Operations
  • Subscribe Payload Formats
    • ENTITY_CREATE
    • ENTITY_UPDATE
    • ENTITY_DELETE
    • CLASSIFICATION_ADD
    • CLASSIFICATION UPDATE
    • CLASSIFICATION DELETE
• Additional Resources

Publish

To publish events to Purview, publish to provided ATLAS_HOOK eventhub.

Known Issues

This sample uses the Eventhub REST API because the Eventhub SDKs will batch messages into an array with no way to send a single event. As of June 2021, Azure Purview does not support reading this batched format.

How to use the sample

1. Set the following environment variables:

   • EVENTHUB_URI - for example: atlas-6ef6c5b5-3f00-4511-aba3-163bd76a9d7d.servicebus.windows.net
   • EVENTHUB_SHARED_ACCESS_KEY

   Retrieve these information from Atlas Kafka endpoint connectionstring in the Properties of your Purview instance.

2. Run ./publish.sh <FILE_PATH_TO_ATLAS_DEFINITION>.

   • To create entity: ./publish.sh atlas_definitions/eh_create_entity.json
   • To log custom lineage: ./publish.sh atlas_definitions/eh_create_entity_lineage.json
   • To update (full) entity: ./publish.sh atlas_definitions/eh_full_update_entity.json
   • To update (partial) entity: ./publish.sh atlas_definitions/eh_partial_update_entity.json
   • To delete entity: ./publish.sh atlas_definitions/eh_delete_entity_by_qualified_name.json

Publish Payload Formats

Hook Notification Types (Atlas V2 only):

• ENTITY_CREATE_V2
• ENTITY_FULL_UPDATE_V2
• ENTITY_PARTIAL_UPDATE_V2
• ENTITY_DELETE_V2

The following are the expected Payload format for each Hook Notification Type.

ENTITY_CREATE_V2 and ENTITY_FULL_UPDATE_V2

{
    "message": {
        "entities": {
            "entities": [ { <ENTITY_DEFINITION> } ],
            "referredEntities": { 
                "<ID1_REFERRED_IN_ENTITY_DEFINITION>": {},
                "<ID1_REFERRED_IN_ENTITY_DEFINITION>": {}
                ...
            }
        },
        "type": "<ENTITY_CREATE_V2 or ENTITY_FULL_UPDATE_V2>",
        "user": "<user>"
    },
    "version": {
        "version": "1.0.0"
    }
}

Sample payloads:

• eh_create_entity.json
• eh_full_update_entity.json
• custom lineage

ENTITY_PARTIAL_UPDATE_V2

{
    "message": {
        "entityId": { <ENTITY_OBJECT_ID> },
        "entity": {
            "entity": {
                "typeName": "<TypeName>",
                "attributes": {
                    "<attr1>": "<value>"
                }
            }
        },
        "type": "ENTITY_PARTIAL_UPDATE_V2",
        "user": "<user>"
    },
    "version": {
        "version": "1.0.0"
    }
}

Sample payloads:

• eh_delete_entity_by_qualified_name.json

ENTITY_DELETE_V2

{
    "message": {
        "entities": [ { <ENTITY_OBJECT_ID> }],
        "type": "ENTITY_DELETE_V2",
        "user": "<user>"
    },
    "version": {
        "version": "1.0.0"
    }
}

Sample payloads:

• eh_delete_entity_by_qualified_name.json
• eh_delete_entity_by_id.json

ENTITY_OBJECT_ID

1. TypeName and UniqueAttribute

   {
       "typeName": "<TYPE_NAME>",
       "uniqueAttributes": {
           "qualifiedName": "<QUALIFIED_NAME>"
       }
   }

2. GUID

   {
       "guid": "<ENTITY_GUID>"
   }
   

Subscribe

Purview allows subscribing to events via the ATLAS_ENTITIES eventhub. Refer to official documentation on how to receive events from an eventhub.

Alternatively, you can also utilize tooling such as VSCode Eventhub Explorer.

Supported Operations

The following are supported operation types:

• ENTITY_CREATE
• ENTITY_UPDATE
• ENTITY_DELETE
• CLASSIFICATION_ADD - when classifications are added to Entity.
• CLASSIFICATION_UPDATE - when classifications are added to an Entity with existing classifications
• CLASSIFICATION_DELETE - when classifications are deleted from an Entity

The following does not result in a notification (not exhaustive):

1. Creating/updating/deleting:

   • Glossary Terms
   • Term Templates
   • Classifications
   • Classification Rules
   • Collections
   • Resource Set Pattern Rules

2. Registering Data Sources

3. Adding a Data Factory and Data Share connection.

Subscribe Payload Formats

ENTITY_CREATE

{
  "version": {
    "version": "1.0.0",
    "versionParts": [
      1
    ]
  },
  "msgCompressionKind": "NONE",
  "msgSplitIdx": 1,
  "msgSplitCount": 1,
  "msgSourceIP": "<IP_ADDRESS>",
  "msgCreatedBy": "",
  "msgCreationTime": 1627361202541,
  "message": {
    "type": "ENTITY_NOTIFICATION_V2",
    "entity": {
      "typeName": "DataSet",
      "attributes": {
        "qualifiedName": "MyDataset",
        "name": "My Dataset"
      },
      "guid": "938fa19f-c616-4e98-a3ad-0cf46250ccc6",
      "status": "ACTIVE",
      "displayText": "My Dataset"
    },
    "operationType": "ENTITY_CREATE",
    "eventTime": 1627361202110
  }
}

ENTITY_UPDATE

{
  "version": {
    "version": "1.0.0",
    "versionParts": [
      1
    ]
  },
  "msgCompressionKind": "NONE",
  "msgSplitIdx": 1,
  "msgSplitCount": 1,
  "msgSourceIP": "<IP_ADDRESS>",
  "msgCreatedBy": "",
  "msgCreationTime": 1627361228916,
  "message": {
    "type": "ENTITY_NOTIFICATION_V2",
    "entity": {
      "typeName": "DataSet",
      "attributes": {
        "qualifiedName": "MyDataset",
        "name": "My UPDATED Dataset"
      },
      "guid": "938fa19f-c616-4e98-a3ad-0cf46250ccc6",
      "status": "ACTIVE",
      "displayText": "My UPDATED Dataset"
    },
    "operationType": "ENTITY_UPDATE",
    "eventTime": 1627361228523
  }
}

ENTITY_DELETE

  "version": {
    "version": "1.0.0",
    "versionParts": [
      1
    ]
  },
  "msgCompressionKind": "NONE",
  "msgSplitIdx": 1,
  "msgSplitCount": 1,
  "msgSourceIP": "<IP_ADDRESS>",
  "msgCreatedBy": "",
  "msgCreationTime": 1627361099553,
  "message": {
    "type": "ENTITY_NOTIFICATION_V2",
    "entity": {
      "typeName": "DataSet",
      "attributes": {
        "qualifiedName": "MyDataset",
        "name": "My Dataset"
      },
      "guid": "cbb31970-c9f4-438f-b080-c11e3d73ac98",
      "displayText": "My Dataset"
    },
    "operationType": "ENTITY_DELETE",
    "eventTime": 1627361099055
  }
}

CLASSIFICATION_ADD

{
  "version": {
    "version": "1.0.0",
    "versionParts": [
      1
    ]
  },
  "msgCompressionKind": "NONE",
  "msgSplitIdx": 1,
  "msgSplitCount": 1,
  "msgSourceIP": "<IP_ADDRESS>",
  "msgCreatedBy": "",
  "msgCreationTime": 1627361507682,
  "message": {
    "type": "ENTITY_NOTIFICATION_V2",
    "entity": {
      "typeName": "DataSet",
      "attributes": {
        "qualifiedName": "MyDataset",
        "name": "My Dataset"
      },
      "guid": "938fa19f-c616-4e98-a3ad-0cf46250ccc6",
      "status": "ACTIVE",
      "displayText": "My Dataset",
      "classificationNames": [
        "MICROSOFT.FINANCIAL.US.ABA_ROUTING_NUMBER"
      ],
      "classifications": [
        {
          "typeName": "MICROSOFT.FINANCIAL.US.ABA_ROUTING_NUMBER",
          "lastModifiedTS": "1",
          "entityGuid": "938fa19f-c616-4e98-a3ad-0cf46250ccc6",
          "entityStatus": "ACTIVE"
        }
      ]
    },
    "operationType": "CLASSIFICATION_ADD",
    "eventTime": 1627361507445
  }
}

CLASSIFICATION UPDATE

{
  "version": {
    "version": "1.0.0",
    "versionParts": [
      1
    ]
  },
  "msgCompressionKind": "NONE",
  "msgSplitIdx": 1,
  "msgSplitCount": 1,
  "msgSourceIP": "<IP_ADDRESS>",
  "msgCreatedBy": "",
  "msgCreationTime": 1627363314455,
  "message": {
    "type": "ENTITY_NOTIFICATION_V2",
    "entity": {
      "typeName": "DataSet",
      "attributes": {
        "qualifiedName": "MyDataset",
        "name": "My Dataset"
      },
      "guid": "938fa19f-c616-4e98-a3ad-0cf46250ccc6",
      "status": "ACTIVE",
      "displayText": "My Dataset",
      "classificationNames": [
        "Test Classification",
        "MICROSOFT.FINANCIAL.US.ABA_ROUTING_NUMBER"
      ],
      "classifications": [
        {
          "typeName": "Test Classification",
          "lastModifiedTS": "1",
          "entityGuid": "938fa19f-c616-4e98-a3ad-0cf46250ccc6",
          "entityStatus": "ACTIVE"
        },
        {
          "typeName": "MICROSOFT.FINANCIAL.US.ABA_ROUTING_NUMBER",
          "lastModifiedTS": "1",
          "entityGuid": "938fa19f-c616-4e98-a3ad-0cf46250ccc6",
          "entityStatus": "ACTIVE"
        }
      ]
    },
    "operationType": "CLASSIFICATION_UPDATE",
    "eventTime": 1627363314138
  }
}

CLASSIFICATION DELETE

{
  "version": {
    "version": "1.0.0",
    "versionParts": [
      1
    ]
  },
  "msgCompressionKind": "NONE",
  "msgSplitIdx": 1,
  "msgSplitCount": 1,
  "msgSourceIP": "<IP_ADDRESS>",
  "msgCreatedBy": "",
  "msgCreationTime": 1627361853716,
  "message": {
    "type": "ENTITY_NOTIFICATION_V2",
    "entity": {
      "typeName": "DataSet",
      "attributes": {
        "qualifiedName": "MyDataset",
        "name": "My Dataset"
      },
      "guid": "938fa19f-c616-4e98-a3ad-0cf46250ccc6",
      "status": "ACTIVE",
      "displayText": "My Dataset"
    },
    "operationType": "CLASSIFICATION_DELETE",
    "eventTime": 1627361853275
  }
}

Additional Resources

• Altas Notifications