Input HTTP_Poller Body with field issue

[romariol (romario)]

Hi,

I'm using the http_poller plugin as input where I perform a SOAP Call to an external system. It works perfectly fine while using a fixed body. However, the body contains date fields which must be the date of today. I can't get it to work to use previously defined fields in the body. I've created a small conf file, as shown below:

input {
  http_poller {
	add_field => {"[basedateSOAP]" => "%{+YYYY-MM-dd}"}
	add_field => {"[requestSOAP]" => '<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"><soapenv:Header></soapenv:Header><soapenv:Body><type><Start_Date>%{[basedateSOAP]}</Start_Date><End_Date>%{[basedateSOAP]}</End_Date></type></soapenv:Body></soapenv:Envelope>'}
	urls => { 
	soap_request => {
	method => post
	url => "https:/test.com"
	headers => {
	"Content-Type" => "text/xml; charset=utf-8"
	}
	#body => '<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"><soapenv:Header></soapenv:Header><soapenv:Body><type><Start_Date>%{[basedateSOAP]}</Start_Date><End_Date>%{[basedateSOAP]}</End_Date></type></soapenv:Body></soapenv:Envelope>'	
	body => "%{[requestSOAP]}"
}}   


request_timeout => 60
schedule => { cron => "* * * * * UTC"}
codec => "plain"
  }
}


output {
file {
            codec => plain {
                    format => "%{[message]} %{[basedateSOAP]} %{[requestSOAP]}"
            }
 path => "/tmp/logstash/output.log"
}
}

If tried in with both the first and second body. Both don't seem to accept a field.

Thanks in advance.

Best,

Romario

[Badger]

The add_field is not executed until the input has successfully created an event, so you cannot reference those fields in setting the body.

[romariol (romario)]

Thanks for your reply. Is there maybe another way to get the currentDate in the message body? I also tried to use %{+YYYY-MM-dd} in the body string. However, no luck.

[Badger]

Use an http filter instead of an http input, perhaps?

[romariol (romario)]

I try to figure out how I can use SOAP in that case. I like the HTTP_Poller for multiple reasons, so I really try to find a solution to have the currentDate in that body.

[romariol (romario)]

Fixed it via exec python