API Reference - Event Object in Transformations

The event object in transformation carries the properties and metadata of the event as populated by source.

For reference, we will assume the following event for examples in this doc

{
    "event_name":"users",
    "properties":{
	"id":56712434,
	"first_name":"John",
	"last_name":"Doe",
	"age":42,
	"is_active":true,
	"last_logged_in":1507893200464
    }
}

There are two main components of the object:

• event_name : The name of the event type. This value is visible in the Schema Mapper for you to map it to a destination table.
• properties : Properties of the event in form of key-value pairs (dict). These properties are populated by the source. Properties of a given event can be manipulated in Transformations Code to add, edit or delete fields in any way you want. 

Here is complete API Reference to the event object.

Event(string: eventname, dict: properties) - Event

Constructs a new event object with given name and properties

getEventName() - string

returns the event name of the event. i.e. users

getProperties() - dict

returns a dict of all the properties of the event

isString(string: fieldname) - boolean

returns true if the value of the specified field name is present and is a string

isNumber(string: fieldname) - boolean

returns true if the value of the specified field name is present and is a number

isBoolean(string: fieldname) - boolean

returns true if the value of the specified field name is present and is a boolean

isTimestamp(string: fieldname) - boolean

returns true if the value of the specified field name is present and is a timestamp/datetime

isDate(string: fieldname) - boolean

returns true if the value of the specified field name is present and is a date. Please note that for datetime values it will return false

isTime(string: fieldname) - boolean

returns true if the value of the specified field name is present and is a time value. Please note that for datetime values it will return false

getType( string: fieldname ) - string

returns type of the value of specified field name

from io.hevo.api import Event

def transform(event):
    eventName = event.getEventName()
    properties = event.getProperties()

    Type = event.getType('last_logged_in')
        ...

getPrimaryKeyFields() - string[]

returns the list of fields which are primary keys in the event. 

setPrimaryKeyFields(string[]: fieldnames)

sets the specified list of field names as the primary key of the event.