DataX Formats, Schemas, Identifiers & Limits¶

Abstract¶

Describes the ingestion formats, partner identifiers, rate-limited quotas for taxonomy and audience posts, and data retention for audiences for DataX partners. Error code responses are also described in this section.

Ingestion Formats¶

Partner will call the POST /v1/usermatch endpoint with their assigned OAuth 1.0 credentials.

Partner Match data is shared in one of the following methods:

CSV File with bzip2 compression¶

Define Schema in the .csv file header.

Example:

PXID	SHA256EMAIL
Partner ID 1	HashedEmail Value 1
Partner ID 2	HashedEmail Value 2

HTTP /POST¶

Note that before uploading your JSON, you’ll need to encrypt it with SHA256. That means, you must convert your email list to a hash which you would then place in your file. For example: If the original email is barry@verizonmedia.com, the hashed value in the file would be

d48adb3c108a657adf7597921f3bfc591ee3f00d658d2d288e0bb396ac0d5964.

Important

Your file name must be properly normalized using lowercase and contain no spaces.

DataX only supports pre-encrypted files. Once the files are encrypted, all the personal data that resides on the files will be protected, using the SHA256 function, so that no raw emails are ever stored.

If an email address is not hashed in the proper format, DataX will not process the audience records.

Follow these steps:

Define schema parameter during a POST call.
Introduce a comma-separated schema parameter that defines the column order and the name values.

Example

POST /v1/usermatch?schema=PXID,SHA256EMAIL
        Partner ID1, HashedEmail Value 1
        Partner ID2, HashedEmail Value 2
        Partner ID3, HashedEmail Value 3

Notes:

A Partner has the option to define the schema as they wish.
There is a priority of the schema defined at different places: schema parameter > schema header in files > default schema.
If a schema is not defined during ingestion, the default schema format will be PXID, SHA256EMAIL.

Data Validation¶

When calling the POST /v1/usermatch endpoint, the uploaded bz2 file’s format and content will be validated. The header line and up to the first 10 lines in the content will be checked. If the validation is not passed, the following error code and message will be returned:

Error Code	Error Message	Description
400 DxFileIsNull	No data file provided in the request	Make sure the data file is provided.
400 DxFileIsEmpty	Empty data file provided in the request	Check the content of the file.
400 DxFileNotValidBZ2	Bz2 file is malformed	Check the file is a valid bz2 file.
400 DxFileNotValidSchema	Insufficient number of valid schema fields	Check the file schema field number is 2 and the delimiter is comma.
400 DxFileHeaderOnly	File with only header line	Check the content lines in the file.
400 DxFileInvalidDelimiter	Invalid delimiter	Check the delimiter used is comma.
400 DxFileHeaderOnly	File with only header line	Check the content lines in the file.
400 DxFileInconsistentFieldAndSchema	Field numbers not consistent with schema numbers	Check the number of content fields and schema fields are the same.
400 DxFileInvalidPxid	Invalid pxid	Make sure PXID is formed by the following ASCII characters from 33 to 126 in ASCII table (44 is comma and is excluded).
400 DxFileInvalidHashedEmail	Invalid hashedEmail	Make sure hashedEmail’s length is 64 and the valid characters are ‘a’-’f’, ‘A’-’F’ and ‘0’-9’.
400 DxFileInconsistentContent	Inconsistent schema and content	Make sure the header field order is the same as the content field order.

DataX Partner Identifier¶

Variable	Syntax
PXID - Partner Cross Identifier	PXID = Partner Cross Identifier (case-sensitive). Note that Data ingestion will perform an exact match.

Rate Limitation¶

DataX is rate-limited per the following quota limits for taxonomy and audience posts:

Error Code	Error Message	Description
429 Too many requests	Rate Limit exceeded per hour (Limit: 100)	Number of requests allowed in an hour per provider.

Data Retention¶

Segment Expiration:

Audiences will be linked to the active segment for 45 days.
Audience refreshes can be posted at any time (for example, daily, weekly, monthly, etc).
If audiences are not refreshed by the default expiration TTL, they will be unlinked from the segment(s).

User Match Expiration:

Partner IDs will be stored in-house for measurement.
In-house data will be stored/ linked to a Verizon Media ID for 90 days to support audience refreshes.

Error Responses¶

Error Code	Error Message	Description
400 DxInvalidRequest	<urtType> is not supported	Used urnType is not supported
400 DxJobNotFound	Cannot Find Job with id <request_id>	The request_id is not found in the datax db.
400 Bad Request	Bad Application Id	The application id is not correct.
500 DxInternalError	Unable to Create Job	The upload job can’t be created.
500 UNABLE_TO_PROCESS_REQUEST	Failed to process. Try again after some time	Server is not available during the processing time.