6.7 Destinations SDK
Real-time CDP - Destinations SDK
6.7.1 Setup your Adobe I/O Project
If you've created your Adobe I/O project after December 2021, you may reuse that project, skip this exercise and move to exercise 6.7.2 immediately.
If you created your Adobe I/O project before December 2021, please create a new project to ensure it's compatible with the Destinations Authoring API.
In this exercise you'll be using Adobe I/O quite intensively to query against Platform's APIs. Please follow the below steps to setup Adobe I/O.
Go to https://developer.adobe.com/console/home
Make sure to select the correct Adobe Experience Platform instance in the top right corner of your screen. Your instance is the IMS Org --envName--.
Click Create new project.
or 
Select + Add to Project and select API.
You'll then see this:
Click the Adobe Experience Platform icon.
Click Experience Platform API.
Click Next.
You can now choose to either have Adobe I/O generate your security key pair, or upload an existing one.
Choose Option 1 - Generate a key pair.
Click Generate keypair.
You'll see a spinner for about 30 seconds.
You'll then see this, and your generated keypair will be downloaded as a zip file: config.zip.
Unzip the file config.zip on your desktop, you'll see it contains 2 files:
certificate_pub.crt is your Public key certificate. From a security perspective, this is the certificate that is freely used to setup integrations with online applications.
private.key is your Private key. This should never, ever be shared with anyone. The Private Key is what you use to authenticate to your API implementation and is supposed to be a secret. If you share your Private Key with anyone, they can access your implementation and abuse the API to ingest malicious data into Platform and extract all the data that sits in Platform.
Make sure to save the config.zip file in a safe location, as you'll need this for the next steps and for future access to Adobe I/O and Adobe Experience Platform APIs.
Click Next.
You now have to select the Product Profile(s) for your integration.
Select the required Product Profiles.
FYI: in your Adobe Experience Platform instance, the Product Profiles will have a different naming. You need to select at least one product profile with the proper access rights, which are set up in the Adobe Admin Console.
Click Save Configured API.
You'll see a spinner for a couple of seconds.
And next, you'll see your integration.
Click the Download for Postman button and then click Service Account (JWT) to download a Postman environment (wait until the environment is downloaded, this can take a couple of seconds).
Scroll down until you see Service Account (JWT), which is where you can find all your integration details that are used to configure the integration with Adobe Experience Platform.
Your IO Project currently has a generic name. You need to give a friendly name to your integration. Click on Project 1 (or similar name) as indicated
Click Edit Project.
Enter a Name and Description for your integration. As a naming convention, we'll use AEP API --demoProfileLdap--. Replace ldap with your ldap. For instance, if your ldap is vangeluw, the name and description of your integration becomes AEP API vangeluw.
Enter AEP API --demoProfileLdap-- as the Project Title. Click Save.
Your Adobe I/O integration is now finished.
6.7.2 Postman authentication to Adobe I/O
Go to https://www.getpostman.com/.
Click on Get Started.
Next, download and install Postman.
After installation of Postman, start the application.
In Postman, there are 2 concepts: Environments and Collections.
The Environment contains all of your environmental variables which are more or less consistent. In the Environment, you'll find things like the IMSOrg of our Platform environment, alongside security credentials like your Private Key and others. The environment file is the one you downloaded during the Adobe I/O setup in the previous exercise, it's name like this: service.postman_environment.json.
The Collection contains a number of API requests that you can use. We will use 2 collections
1 Collection for Authentication to Adobe I/0
1 Collection for the exercises in this module
1 collection for the exercises in the Real-Time CDP module, for Destination Authoring
Please download the file postman.zip to your local desktop.
In this postman.zip file, you'll find the following files:
_Adobe I-O - Token.postman_collection.json_Adobe Experience Platform Enablement.postman_collection.jsonDestination_Authoring_API.json
Unzip the postman.zip file and store these 3 files in a folder on your desktop, together with the downloaded Postman environment from Adobe I/O. You need to have these 4 files in that folder:
Go back to Postman. Click Import.
Click Upload Files.
Navigate to the folder on your desktop in which you extracted the 4 downloaded files. Select these 4 files at the same time and click Open.
After having clicked Open, Postman will show you an overview of the Environment and Collections you're about to import. Click Import.
You now have everything you need in Postman to start interacting with Adobe Experience Platform through the APIs.
The first thing to do, is to make sure you're properly authenticated. To be authenticated, you need to request an access token.
Make sure that you've got the right Environment selected before executing any request. You can check the currently selected Environment by verifying the Environment-dropdown list in the top right corner.
The selected Environment should have a name similar to this one:
Click the eye icon and then click Edit to update the Private Key in the environment file.
You'll then see this. All fields are pre-populated, except for the field PRIVATE_KEY.
The private key has been generated when you created your Adobe I/O Project. It was downloaded as a zip file, named config.zip. Extract that zip file to your desktop.
Open the folder config and open the file private.key with your text editor of choice.
You'll then see something resembling this, copy all the text to your clipboard.
Go back to Postman and paste the private key in the fields next to the variable PRIVATE_KEY, for both the columns INITIAL VALUE and CURRENT VALUE. Click Save.
Your Postman environment and collections are now configured and working. You can now authenticate from Postman to Adobe I/O.
To do that, you need to load an external library that will take care of the encryption and decryption of communication. To load this library, you have to execute the request with the name INIT: Load Crypto Library for RS256. Select this request in the _Adobe I/O - Token collection and you'll see it displayed in the middle of your screen.
Click the blue Send button. After a couple of seconds, you should see a response displayed in the Body section of Postman:
With the crypto library now loaded, we can authenticate to Adobe I/O.
In the _Adobe I/O - Token collection, select the request with the name IMS: JWT Generate + Auth. Again, you'll see the request details displayed in the middle of the screen.
Click the blue Send button. After a couple of seconds, you should see a response displayed in the Body section of Postman:
If your configuration was successful, you should see a similar response that contains the following information:
token_type
bearer
access_token
eyJ4NXUiOiJpbXNfbmEx...QT7mqZkumN1tdsPEioOEl4087Dg
expires_in
86399973
Adobe I/O has given you a bearer-token, with a specific value (this very long access_token) and an expiration window.
The token that we've received is now valid for 24 hours. This means that after 24 hours, if you want to use Postman to authenticate to Adobe I/O, you will have to generate a new token by running this request again.
6.7.3 Define endpoint and format
For this exercise, you'll need an endpoint to configure so that when a segment qualifies, the qualification event can be streamed to that endpoint. In this exercise, you'll use a sample endpoint using https://webhook.site/. Go to https://webhook.site/, where you'll see something similar to this. Click Copy to clipboard to copy the url. You'll need to specify this url in the next exercise. The URL in this example is https://webhook.site/e0eb530c-15b4-4a29-8b50-e40877d5490a.
As for the format, we'll use a standard template that will stream segment qualifications or unqualifications along with metadata like customer identifiers. Templates can be customized to meet the expectations of specific endpoints, but in this exercise we'll reuse a standard template, which will result in a payload like this that will be streamed to the endpoint.
6.7.4 Create a server and template configuration
The first step to create your own Destination in Adobe Experience Platform is to create a server and template configuration.
To do that, go to Destination Authoring API, to Destination servers and templates and click to open the request POST - Create a destination server configuration. You'll then see this. Under Headers, you need to manually update the value for the key x-sandbox-name and set it to --aepSandboxId--. Select the value {{SANDBOX_NAME}}.
Replace it by --aepSandboxId--.
Next, go to Body. select the placeholder {{body}}.
You now need to replace the placeholder {{body}} by the below code:
After pasting the above code, you need to manually update the field urlBasedDestination.url.value, and you need to set it to the url of the webhook you created in the previous step, which was https://webhook.site/e0eb530c-15b4-4a29-8b50-e40877d5490a in this example.
After updating the field urlBasedDestiantion.url.value, it should look like this. Click Send.
After clicking Send, your server template will be created, and as part of the response you'll see a field named instanceId. Write it down, as you'll need it in the next step. In this example, the instanceId is eb0f436f-dcf5-4993-a82d-0fcc09a6b36c.
6.7.5 Create your destination configuration
In Postman, under Destination Authoring API, go to Destination configurations and click to open the request POST - Create a destination configuration. You'll then see this. Under Headers, you need to manually update the value for the key x-sandbox-name and set it to --aepSandboxId--. Select the value {{SANDBOX_NAME}}.
Replace it by --aepSandboxId--.
Next, go to Body. select the placeholder {{body}}.
You now need to replace the placeholder {{body}} by the below code:
After pasting the above code, you need to manually update the field destinationDelivery. destinationServerId, and you need to set it to the instanceId of the destination server template you created in the previous step, which was eb0f436f-dcf5-4993-a82d-0fcc09a6b36c in this example. Next, cick Send.
You'll then see this response.
Your destination is now created in Adobe Experience Platform. Let's go there and check it.
Go to Adobe Experience Platform. After logging in, you'll land on the homepage of Adobe Experience Platform.
Before you continue, you need to select a sandbox. The sandbox to select is named --aepSandboxId--. You can do this by clicking the text [!UICONTROL Production Prod] in the blue line on top of your screen. After selecting the appropriate [!UICONTROL sandbox], you'll see the screen change and now you're in your dedicated [!UICONTROL sandbox].
In the left menu, go to Destinations, click Catalog and scroll down to the category Streaming. You'll see your destination avaiable there now.
6.7.6 Link your segment to your destination
In Destinations > Catalog, click Set up on your destination to start adding segments to your new destination.
Enter a dummy bearer token, like 1234. Click Connect to destination.
You'll then see this. As a name for your destination, use --demoProfileLdap-- - Webhook. Select an endpoint of choice, in this example EU. Click Next.
You can optionally select a data governance policy. Click Next.
Select the segment you created earlier, which is named --demoProfileLdap-- - Interest in PROTEUS FITNESS JACKSHIRT. Click Next.
You'll then see this. Make sure to map the SOURCE FIELD --aepTenantId--.identification.core.ecid to the field Identity: ecid. Click Next.
Click Finish.
Your destination is now live, new segment qualifications will be streamed to your custom webhook now.
6.7.7 Test your segment activation
Go to https://builder.adobedemo.com/projects. After logging in with your Adobe ID, you'll see this. Click your website project to open it.
You can now follow the below flow to access the website. Click Integrations.
On the Integrations page, you need to select the Data Collection property that was created in exercise 0.1.
You'll then see your demo website open up. Select the URL and copy it to your clipboard.
Open a new incognito browser window.
Paste the URL of your demo website, which you copied in the previous step. You'll then be asked to login using your Adobe ID.
Select your account type and complete the login process.
You'll then see your website loaded in an incognito browser window. For every demonstration, you'll need to use a fresh, incognito browser window to load your demo website URL.
From the Luma homepage, go to Men, and click the product PROTEUS FITNESS JACKSHIRT.
You've now visited the product page for PROTEUS FITNESS JACKSHIRT, which means you'll now qualify for the segment that you created earlier in this exercise.
When you open the Profile Viewer, and go to Segments, you'll see the segment qualify.
Now go back to your open webhook on https://webhook.site/, where you should see a new incoming request, which originates from Adobe Experience Platform and which contains the segment qualification event.
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