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IoT hub with kafka connector - how to decode the enqueued timestamp and device id

Pรกlmi
New Contributor II

I'm reading data from the default endpoint of an IoT hub in azure using the kafka connector in Databricks.  Most data items are straight forward, but the device id and the timestamp I haven't been able to properly decode

For example, the key-value map of the headers  {"key": "iothub-enqueuedtime", "value": "gwAAAZAMsGjg"}  should be a recent timestamp.  Any ideas on how to decode this, using pyspark?

 

 

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Pรกlmi
New Contributor II

Hi @Kaniz_Fatma , thanks for your reply.  The iothub-enqueuedtime does not (directly ) cast into a timestamp, but an unix timestamp with milliseconds  is somewhere in there

 

from pyspark.sql import SparkSession
from pyspark.sql.functions import col, from_json, explode, get_json_object, schema_of_json
from pyspark.sql.functions import col, explode, expr, unbase64, from_unixtime,hex,length

df = spark.read.format("delta").table("iot_ps2")
#df.display()
df2=df.select("headers")
df2.display()
# Explode the array of structs into individual rows
df_exploded = df.withColumn("json_item", explode(col("headers")))
# Filter rows to get only the 'iothub-enqueuedtime' key
df_filtered = df_exploded.filter(col("json_item.key") == "iothub-enqueuedtime")
df3=df_filtered.select("json_item.key","json_item.value")
df3=df3.withColumn("str_value",expr("cast(value as STRING)"))
df3=df3.withColumn("hex",expr("hex(str_value)"))
df3.display()
 
looking at the hex code it is possible to determine that the 6 rightmost bytes "01 90 36 4C 1B 5C" turn into a unix timestamp with milliseconds. That leaves 3 unknown bytes 
I'm hoping that a more straightforward way is available
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Erik
Valued Contributor II

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