# Get event data as a Ruby plain object

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-event-data-as-a-ruby-plain-object/131048>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [May 8, 2018, 6:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-event-data-as-a-ruby-plain-object/131048 "2018-05-08T18:39:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![ebuildy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ebuildy/32/6070_2.png) [@ebuildy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ebuildy)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 6:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-event-data-as-a-ruby-plain-object/131048/1 "2018-05-08T18:39:52Z")

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I am writing a plugin to validate the event data with JSON schema, with logstash 6.x, with [https://github.com/ruby-json-schema/json-schema/](https://github.com/ruby-json-schema/json-schema/).

How can I get the event object as a plain ruby object?

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 7:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-event-data-as-a-ruby-plain-object/131048/2 "2018-05-08T19:28:51Z")

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```
event.to_hash
```

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**Author:** ![ebuildy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ebuildy/32/6070_2.png) [@ebuildy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ebuildy)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2018, 12:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-event-data-as-a-ruby-plain-object/131048/3 "2018-05-09T12:52:33Z")

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It's perfect! thanks you.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 12:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-event-data-as-a-ruby-plain-object/131048/4 "2018-06-06T12:52:43Z")

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