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Inserting new events via the REST API using the Receivers endpoints thru Java SDK

misteryuku — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 09:03:53 GMT

I'm doing Java Splunk REST API to insert new events via the REST API.

I used the Java's splunk service api to add headers and put in the path for the
receiver end point

Map<string, object=""> args = new HashMap<string, object="">();

args.put("Authorization", "Basic YWRtaW46cGFzcw==");

args.put("x-splunk-input-mode", "streaming");

String path = "https://localhost:8089/services/receivers/stream?data="+data+"&host="+host+"&index="+index+"&source="+source+"&sourcetype="+sourcetype;
authService.post(path,args);

A HTTP 404 error was thrown when i run the code. The receiver wasn't present. Probably due to the HttpHeaders.

Re: Inserting new events via the REST API using the Receivers endpoints thru Java SDK

misteryuku — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 09:53:37 GMT

I changed and i tried this :
RequestMessage reqMsg = new RequestMessage();
reqMsg.setMethod("POST"); reqMsg.getHeader().put("Authorization" , authService.getToken());
reqMsg.getHeader().put("x-splunk-input-mode", "streaming");
String path = "https://localhost:8089/services/receivers/stream?data="+data+"?host="+host+"&index="+index+"&source="+source+"&sourcetype="+sourcetype;
authService.send(path,reqMsg);

Re: Inserting new events via the REST API using the Receivers endpoints thru Java SDK

Ayn — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 09:55:21 GMT

Is it really the authService object you should be sending this request via?

Re: Inserting new events via the REST API using the Receivers endpoints thru Java SDK

MarioM — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:00:35 GMT

Not sure sure if this is useful but if you look at index.java in the Java SDK, at the end it provides a way to upload data to a named index.

Re: Inserting new events via the REST API using the Receivers endpoints thru Java SDK

misteryuku — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:24:18 GMT

Yes!! Absolutely

Re: Inserting new events via the REST API using the Receivers endpoints thru Java SDK

wcolgate_splunk — Thu, 03 May 2012 23:15:04 GMT

The Java SDK introduces a Receivers class in the SDK refresh due at beginning of June. It shows how to submit events very easily.