[Bro-Dev] Broker data layouts

Dominik Charousset dominik.charousset at haw-hamburg.de
Tue Aug 21 06:47:12 PDT 2018


We are currently writing code for ingesting data directly using Broker’s API. From the docs, it seems that Broker assumes that publishers and subscribers somehow agree on one layout per topic: "senders and receivers will need to agree on a specific data layout for the values exchanged, so that they interpret them in the same way.” [1]

This raises a couple of questions. Primarily: where can Broker users learn the layouts to interpret received data? There’s essentially no hope in deferring a layout, since broker::data doesn’t include any meta information such as field names. Is meta information stored somewhere? Is there a convention how to place and retrieve such meta information in Broker’s data stores? How does Bro itself make such information available? Is there a document that lists all topics used by Bro with their respective broker::data layout?

    Dominik


[1] https://bro-broker.readthedocs.io/en/stable/comm.html#exchanging-bro-events <https://bro-broker.readthedocs.io/en/stable/comm.html#exchanging-bro-events>
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