Send Parameter data

You can send telemetry data using the Streaming Writer API. Select a topic and a stream to send the data to. In your payload, you can include numeric, string, or binary parameter data, with nanosecond-level timestamps.

Sending structured data to the endpoint

Send a POST request together with a JSON payload representing the data you’re sending to:

/topics/${topicName}/streams/${streamId}/parameters/data

You should replace ${topicName} with the name of the topic your stream belongs to, and ${streamId} with the id of the stream you wish to send data to. For example:

/topics/cars/streams/66fb0a2f-eb70-494e-9df7-c06d275aeb7c/parameters/data

Tip

You can create a new stream by supplying a ${streamId} that doesn’t already exist. This avoids the need to call the create stream endpoint separately.

Example request

Your payload should include an array of timestamps with one timestamp for each item of data you’re sending. Actual data values should be keyed on their name, in the object that corresponds to their type, one of numericValues or stringValues. The payload is in this structure:

{
    "timestamps": [...],
    "numericValues": {...},
    "stringValues": {...},
    "tagValues": {...}
}

Any data types that are unused can be omitted. An example request is as follows:

curlNode.js

curl "https://${domain}.platform.quix.io/topics/${topicName}/streams/${streamId}/parameters/data" \
    -X POST \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer ${token}" \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{
             "timestamps": [1591733989000000000, 1591733990000000000, 1591733991000000000],
             "numericValues": {
                 "SomeParameter1": [10.01, 202.02, 303.03],
                 "SomeParameter2": [400.04, 50.05, 60.06]
             }
        }'

const https = require('https');

const data = JSON.stringify({
    "timestamps": [1591733989000000000, 1591733990000000000, 1591733991000000000],
    "numericValues": {
        "SomeParameter1": [10.01, 202.02, 303.03],
        "SomeParameter2": [400.04, 50.05, 60.06]
    }
});

const options = {
    hostname: domain + '.platform.quix.io',
    path: '/topics/' + topicName + '/streams/' + streamId + '/parameters/data',
    method: 'POST',
    headers: {
        'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + token,
        'Content-Type': 'application/json'
    }
};

const req = https.request(options);

req.write(data);
req.end();

Response

No payload is returned from this call. A 200 HTTP response code indicates success. If the call fails, you should see either a 4xx or 5xx response code indicating what went wrong.

Using SignalR

The following code shows how to send data using SignalR (WebSockets):

var signalR = require("@microsoft/signalr");
const token = "YOUR_TOKEN"
const environmentId = "YOUR_ENVIRONMENT_ID"
const topic = "YOUR_TOPIC_NAME"
const streamId = "ID_OF_STREAM_TO_WRITE_TO"

const options = {
    accessTokenFactory: () => token
};

const connection = new signalR.HubConnectionBuilder()
    .withUrl("https://writer-" + environmentId + ".platform.quix.io/hub", options)
    .build();

// Establish connection
connection.start().then(async () => {
    console.log("Connected to Quix.");

    // Note, SignalR uses the same models as the HTTP endpoints, so if in doubt, check HTTP endpoint samples or Swagger for model.
    let parameterData = {
      "epoch": Date.now() * 1000000, // set now as time starting point, in nanoseconds
      "timestamps": [
        0,
        5000000000, // 5 seconds from now (see epoch)
        8000000000
      ],
      "numericValues": {
        "NumericParameter1": [
          13.37,
          42,
          24.72
        ]
      },
      "stringValues": {
        "StringParameter1": [
          "Hello",
          "World",
          "!"
        ]
      },
      "tagValues": {
        "Tag1": [
          "A",
          "B",
          null
        ]
      }
    }

    // Send stream update details
    console.log("Sending parameter data");
    await connection.invoke("SendParameterData", topic, streamId, parameterData);
    console.log("Sent parameter data");
});

Tip

Also available as JsFiddle at https://jsfiddle.net/QuixAI/a41b8x0t/

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