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Streaming Stream Structure

Structural typing for a Stream on a streaming platform. Documents the shape of a stream definition as exchanged in catalog and control-plane APIs.

Type: object Properties: 15

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Stream is a JSON Structure definition published by Streaming, describing 15 properties. It conforms to the https://json-structure.org/draft-01/schema meta-schema.

Properties

id name description platform namespace partitions replication_factor retention ordering_key delivery_guarantee encoding tiered_storage created updated tags

Meta-schema: https://json-structure.org/draft-01/schema

JSON Structure

{
  "$schema": "https://json-structure.org/draft-01/schema",
  "$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/streaming/main/json-structure/streaming-stream-structure.json",
  "title": "Streaming Stream Structure",
  "description": "Structural typing for a Stream on a streaming platform. Documents the shape of a stream definition as exchanged in catalog and control-plane APIs.",
  "type": "object",
  "name": "Stream",
  "properties": {
    "id":                  { "type": "string", "required": true },
    "name":                { "type": "string", "required": true },
    "description":         { "type": "string" },
    "platform":            { "type": "string", "required": true, "enum": ["apache-kafka", "apache-pulsar", "redpanda", "nats-jetstream", "aws-kinesis", "gcp-pubsub", "azure-event-hubs", "confluent-cloud", "streamnative", "other"] },
    "namespace":           { "type": "string" },
    "partitions":          { "type": "integer", "min": 1 },
    "replication_factor":  { "type": "integer", "min": 1 },
    "retention": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "mode":      { "type": "string", "enum": ["time", "size", "compact", "compact_and_delete", "infinite"] },
        "duration":  { "type": "string", "format": "iso8601-duration" },
        "max_bytes": { "type": "integer" }
      }
    },
    "ordering_key":        { "type": "string" },
    "delivery_guarantee":  { "type": "string", "enum": ["at-most-once", "at-least-once", "exactly-once"] },
    "encoding":            { "type": "string", "enum": ["binary", "json", "text", "protobuf", "avro"] },
    "tiered_storage":      { "type": "boolean" },
    "created":             { "type": "string", "format": "date-time" },
    "updated":             { "type": "string", "format": "date-time" },
    "tags":                { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } }
  },
  "examples": [
    "../examples/streaming-stream-example.json"
  ]
}

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