AEM Events FAQ

What are the requirements ? Which versions of AEM are supported for I/O Events?

A range of versions is supported. For more information please refer setting up AEM Events powered by AEM add-on module with Adobe I/O Events.

What does the AEM event payload look like?

Since aio-lib-java version 0.1.0 Adobe IO Events AEM add-on module supports the recommended CloudEvents event envelope delivery format.

The CloudEvents event envelope looks like this :

{
  "specversion": "1.0",
  "source": "urn:uuid:the_AEM_provider_id",
  "type": "the_AEM_event_code",
  "id": "the_AEM_event_id",
  "datacontenttype": "application/json",
  "data": "the_AEM_event_payload"
}

Whereas the legacy XDM Event Model envelope looks like:

{
  "event_id": "the_AEM_event_id",
  "event": "the_AEM_event_payload"
}

The AEM event payloads follow an Adobe XDM Event Model, based on the json-ld w3c activity streams spec

data-variant=info

data-slots=text

The following event payloads are specific to the deprecated AEM add-on module. For AEM Cloud Service events, the payload envelope follows the CloudEvents standard, though the contents may differ.

Here are a few sample AEM event payloads:

Asset events:

Asset created:

{
  "@id": "82235bac-2b81-4e70-90b5-2bd1f04b5c7b",
  "@type": "xdmCreated",
  "xdmEventEnvelope:objectType": "xdmAsset",
  "activitystreams:published": "2016-07-16T19:20:30+01:00",
  "activitystreams:to": {
    "xdmImsOrg:id": "08B3E5CE5822FC520A494229@AdobeOrg",
    "@type": "xdmImsOrg"
  },
  "activitystreams:generator": {
    "xdmContentRepository:root": "http://francois.corp.adobe.com:4502/",
    "@type": "xdmContentRepository"
  },
  "activitystreams:actor": {
    "xdmAemUser:id": "admin",
    "@type": "xdmAemUser"
  },
  "activitystreams:object": {
    "@type": "xdmAsset",
    "xdmAsset:asset_id": "urn:aaid:aem:4123ba4c-93a8-4c5d-b979-ffbbe4318185",
    "xdmAsset:asset_name": "Fx_DUKE-small.png",
    "xdmAsset:etag": "6fc55d0389d856ae7deccebba54f110e",
    "xdmAsset:path": "/content/dam/Fx_DUKE-small.png",
    "xdmAsset:format": "image/png"
  },
  "@context": {
    "activitystreams": "http://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#",
    "xdmEventEnvelope": "https://ns.adobe.com/xdm/common/eventenvelope#",
    "xdmAsset": "http://ns.adobe.com/xdm/assets/asset#",
    "xdmImsOrg": "https://ns.adobe.com/xdm/ims/organization#",
    "xdmContentRepository": "https://ns.adobe.com/xdm/content/repository",
    "xdmAemUser": "https://ns.adobe.com/xdm/aem/user#",
    "xdmCreated": "https://ns.adobe.com/xdm/common/event/created#"
  }
}

Asset deleted:

{
  "@id": "82235bac-2b81-4e70-90b5-2bd1f04b5c7b",
  "@type": "xdmDeleted",
  "xdmEventEnvelope:objectType": "xdmAsset",
  "activitystreams:published": "2016-07-16T19:20:30+01:00",
  "activitystreams:to": {
    "xdmImsOrg:id": "08B3E5CE5822FC520A494229@AdobeOrg",
    "@type": "xdmImsOrg"
  },
  "activitystreams:generator": {
    "xdmContentRepository:root": "http://francois.corp.adobe.com:4502/",
    "@type": "xdmContentRepository"
  },
  "activitystreams:actor": {
    "xdmAemUser:id": "admin",
    "@type": "xdmAemUser"
  },
  "activitystreams:object": {
    "@type": "xdmAsset",
    "xdmAsset:asset_id": "urn:aaid:aem:4123ba4c-93a8-4c5d-b979-ffbbe4318185"
  },
  "@context": {
    "activitystreams": "http://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#",
    "xdmEventEnvelope": "https://ns.adobe.com/xdm/common/eventenvelope#",
    "xdmAsset": "http://ns.adobe.com/xdm/assets/asset#",
    "xdmImsOrg": "https://ns.adobe.com/xdm/ims/organization#",
    "xdmContentRepository": "https://ns.adobe.com/xdm/content/repository",
    "xdmAemUser": "https://ns.adobe.com/xdm/aem/user#",
    "xdmDeleted": "https://ns.adobe.com/xdm/common/event/deleted#"
  }
}

Asset updated:

{
  "@id": "82235bac-2b81-4e70-90b5-2bd1f04b5c7b",
  "@type": "xdmUpdated",
  "xdmEventEnvelope:objectType": "xdmAsset",
  "activitystreams:published": "2016-07-16T19:20:30+01:00",
  "activitystreams:to": {
    "xdmImsOrg:id": "08B3E5CE5822FC520A494229@AdobeOrg",
    "@type": "xdmImsOrg"
  },
  "activitystreams:generator": {
    "xdmContentRepository:root": "http://francois.corp.adobe.com:4502/",
    "@type": "xdmContentRepository"
  },
  "activitystreams:actor": {
    "xdmAemUser:id": "admin",
    "@type": "xdmAemUser"
  },
  "activitystreams:object": {
    "activitystreams:mediaType": "image/png",
    "@type": "xdmAsset",
    "xdmAsset:asset_id": "urn:aaid:aem:4123ba4c-93a8-4c5d-b979-ffbbe4318185",
    "xdmAsset:asset_name": "Fx_DUKE-small.png",
    "xdmAsset:etag": "6fc55d0389d856ae7deccebba54f110e",
    "xdmAsset:path": "/content/dam/Fx_DUKE-small.png",
    "xdmAsset:format": "image/png"
  },
  "@context": {
    "activitystreams": "http://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#",
    "xdmEventEnvelope": "https://ns.adobe.com/xdm/common/eventenvelope#",
    "xdmAsset": "http://ns.adobe.com/xdm/assets/asset#",
    "xdmImsOrg": "https://ns.adobe.com/xdm/ims/organization#",
    "xdmContentRepository": "https://ns.adobe.com/xdm/content/repository",
    "xdmAemUser": "https://ns.adobe.com/xdm/aem/user#",
    "xdmUpdated": "https://ns.adobe.com/xdm/common/event/updated#"
  }
}

Page events:

Page published:

{
  "@id": "82235bac-2b81-4e70-90b5-2bd1f04b5c7b",
  "@type": "xdmPublished",
  "xdmEventEnvelope:objectType": "xdmComponentizedPage",
  "activitystreams:published": "2016-07-16T19:20:30+01:00",
  "activitystreams:to": {
    "xdmImsOrg:id": "08B3E5CE5822FC520A494229@AdobeOrg",
    "@type": "xdmImsOrg"
  },
  "activitystreams:generator": {
    "xdmContentRepository:root": "https://cloud-action-dev.corp.adobe.com:4502/",
    "@type": "xdmContentRepository"
  },
  "activitystreams:actor": {
    "xdmAemUser:id": "admin",
    "@type": "xdmAemUser"
  },
  "activitystreams:object": {
    "@id": "http://adobesummit.adobesandbox.com:4502/content/geometrixx/en/vintage.html",
    "@type": "xdmComponentizedPage",
    "xdmComponentizedPage:title": "Vintage Collection",
    "xdmComponentizedPage:path": "/content/geometrixx/en/vintage.html"
  },
  "@context": {
    "activitystreams": "http://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#",
    "xdmEventEnvelope": "https://ns.adobe.com/xdm/common/eventenvelope#",
    "xdmComponentizedPage": "https://ns.adobe.com/xdm/content/componentized-page#",
    "xdmImsOrg": "https://ns.adobe.com/xdm/ims/organization#",
    "xdmContentRepository": "https://ns.adobe.com/xdm/content/repository#",
    "xdmAemUser": "https://ns.adobe.com/xdm/aem/user#",
    "xdmPublished": "https://ns.adobe.com/xdm/common/event/published#"
  }
}

Page unpublished:

{
  "@id": "82235bac-2b81-4e70-90b5-2bd1f04b5c7b",
  "@type": "xdmUnpublished",
  "xdmEventEnvelope:objectType": "xdmComponentizedPage",
  "activitystreams:published": "2016-07-16T19:20:30+01:00",
  "activitystreams:to": {
    "xdmImsOrg:id": "08B3E5CE5822FC520A494229@AdobeOrg",
    "@type": "xdmImsOrg"
  },
  "activitystreams:generator": {
    "xdmContentRepository:root": "https://cloud-action-dev.corp.adobe.com:4502/",
    "@type": "xdmContentRepository"
  },
  "activitystreams:actor": {
    "xdmAemUser:id": "admin",
    "@type": "xdmAemUser"
  },
  "activitystreams:object": {
    "@id": "http://adobesummit.adobesandbox.com:4502/content/geometrixx/en/vintage.html",
    "@type": "xdmComponentizedPage",
    "xdmComponentizedPage:title": "Vintage Collection",
    "xdmComponentizedPage:path": "/content/geometrixx/en/vintage.html"
  },
  "@context": {
    "activitystreams": "http://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#",
    "xdmEventEnvelope": "https://ns.adobe.com/xdm/common/eventenvelope#",
    "xdmComponentizedPage": "https://ns.adobe.com/xdm/content/componentized-page#",
    "xdmImsOrg": "https://ns.adobe.com/xdm/ims/organization#",
    "xdmContentRepository": "https://ns.adobe.com/xdm/content/repository#",
    "xdmAemUser": "https://ns.adobe.com/xdm/aem/user#",
    "xdmPublished": "https://ns.adobe.com/xdm/common/event/published#"
  }
}