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JSON Schema iglu:com.snowplowanalytics.snowplow/cookie_extractor_config/jsonschema/1-0-0 Compatibility r72+, Scala Stream Collector only Data provider None

One powerful attribute of having Snowplow event collection on your own domain (e.g. events.snowplowanalytics.com) is the ability to capture first-party cookies set by other services on your domain such as ad servers or CMSes; these cookies are stored as HTTP headers in the Thrift raw event payload by the Scala Stream Collector.

This community-contributed enrichment lets you specify cookies that you want to extract if found; each extracted cookie will end up a single derived context in the JSON Schema org.ietf/http_cookie/jsonschema/1-0-0.

{
	"schema": "iglu:com.snowplowanalytics.snowplow/cookie_extractor_config/jsonschema/1-0-0",
	"data": {
		"name": "cookie_extractor_config",
		"vendor": "com.snowplowanalytics.snowplow",
		"enabled": true,
		"parameters": {
			"cookies": ["sp"]
		}
	}
}

This default configuration is capturing the Scala Stream Collector's own sp cookie - in practice you would probably extract other more valuable cookies available on your company domain.

The data source for this enrichment is HTTP headers captured by the Scala Stream Collector and thus present in the Thrift raw event payload. Specifically, it is the Cookie header that is targeted here.

Note: This enrichment only works with events recorded by the Scala Stream Collector - the CloudFront and Clojure Collectors do not capture HTTP headers.

The name(s) of cookie(s) that are of interest to the user are extracted from the cookie_extractor_config.json.

The HTTP headers from the event payload are examined for presence of the cookie(s) and once found its name and value is captured and "inserted" as a single derived_contexts into the enriched/good stream/bucket.

As each key-value pair corresponding to the cookie is represented as a derived_contexts correlated to the JSON Schema org.ietf/http_cookie/jsonschema/1-0-0, the output of this enrichment is a separate entity with the data.name and data.value fields where data.name is the name of the cookie and data.value is its value.

If EMR enrichment is engaged (as opposed to Kinesis) the generated data ends up in org_ietf_http_cookie_1 table.