Created question in FIWARE Q/A platform on 03-08-2015 at 14:08
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Question:
CEP Producer - Timed file adapter

Description:
In Fiware CEP's User Manual (pdf), page 12, it's mentioned you can create an event Producer of the type 'Timed', that will retrieve events from a file at intervals of time based on their 'OccurranceTime' property.
In my Fi-Lab's intance I don't find this 'Timed' type of producer in the dropdown list, only: File, JMS, Rest and Custom.

So I thought this feature could be implemented in the type 'File', but I can't get it to work, the property 'sendingDelay' in the Producer, always dictates the reading speed, not 'OccurrenceTime' in the event payload. Deleting 'sendingDelay' from the Producer makes it not send events at all.

OccurranceTime is said, in the manual, to be in milliseconds and in the authoring tool it has variable type of 'Date', so "OccurranceTime":"1000" should mean one second.

So, how can I get events produced at desired times? Is it just a matter of correct formating?

(BTW: in the manual OccurranceTime is spelled in two diferent ways: 'OccuranceTime' and 'OccurranceTime'. I believe the correct one is with double 'r', as it's what the authoring tools gives by default when creating a new event.)

Thank you,
Arthur