{ "$schema": "https://json-structure.org/meta/core/v0/#", "$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-iot-events/refs/heads/main/json-structure/iot-events-payload-structure.json", "name": "Payload", "description": "

Information needed to configure the payload.

By default, AWS IoT Events generates a standard payload in JSON for any action. This action payload contains all attribute-value pairs that have the information about the detector model instance and the event triggered the action. To configure the action payload, you can use contentExpression.

", "type": "object", "properties": { "contentExpression": { "allOf": [ { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/ContentExpression" }, { "description": "The content of the payload. You can use a string expression that includes quoted strings ('<string>'), variables ($variable.<variable-name>), input values ($input.<input-name>.<path-to-datum>), string concatenations, and quoted strings that contain ${} as the content. The recommended maximum size of a content expression is 1 KB." } ] }, "type": { "allOf": [ { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/PayloadType" }, { "description": "The value of the payload type can be either STRING or JSON." } ] } }, "required": [ "contentExpression", "type" ] }