Modeling magnetic events as protobuf schemas.

Each event is composed of two parts - data and meta-data. The data is the minimal viable information that this event contains for its consumers. For example, a pixel event may have advertiser id and either a revenue value for a conversion event or a product id for a product event. The meta data contains the event id itself, the time it was produced, its source and the actor (event generator). This is shown in the diagram below :

Format:

The two parts are making the event global message, simply called event.proto

The meta-data contains the the source and the actor messages defined in corresponding proto files. The actor defines the generaor of the message whereas the source the method it was delivered (such as HTTP) and the machine it took place on. The data events correspond to the service that generated them such as pixels / impressions / clicks .

Note : the schemas are defined using proto3 syntax.

First you need to install protobuf with protoc and make sure that protobuf is installed. Make sure that all are version 3.x When writing this, the google protobuf version version 3.0.0a4 did not link some of the extra google messages. Therefoe, two of the ones that are used (Any and Timestamp) are copied manually into google_messages directory.

When calling the protoc compiler, you will need to provide the path to the source files, and the path to the output files. For example, assuming that you are on the protobuf directory of this project, and you would like your output files to be in , the command will look like : protoc --python_out=<dest> --proto_path=protobuf protobuf/messages/event.proto