Automatically generating code bindings for events with AWS Schema Registry

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To automatically generate code bindings for events with AWS Schema Registry, you will first need to create a schema in the registry. AWS Schema Registry is a feature of AWS EventBridge that allows you to store, retrieve, and manage schema definitions for events.

These schemas define the structure of event data in a way that ensures consistency across applications and microservices. Once a schema is in place, you can use it to generate code bindings in several programming languages, which allows you to model, serialize, and deserialize event data within your applications.

Below is a Pulumi program in TypeScript that accomplishes the following:

1. **Create a Schema Registry**: This registry will be the container for your event schemas.
2. **Define a Schema**: Create a schema within that registry. In this example, a simple schema definition is used, but in real-world scenarios, you would define your actual event structure here.
3. **Generate Code Bindings**: While Pulumi itself does not generate the code bindings directly, once you have a schema registered, you can use tools like `aws-sdk` to generate code bindings based on the schema in the registry. This step is typically done outside of the infrastructure code, as part of your application build process.

Let's go through the Pulumi program. Remember to have Pulumi CLI installed and your AWS credentials configured prior to running this code.

```typescript
import * as pulumi from '@pulumi/pulumi';
import * as aws from '@pulumi/aws';

// Step 1: Create a registry for schema definitions
const registry = new aws.schemas.Registry("myRegistry", {
    name: "MyEventRegistry",
    // Additional properties like description can be added here.
});

// Step 2: Define a schema in the registry
const mySchema = new aws.schemas.Schema("mySchema", {
    // The name of the registry created above
    registryName: registry.name,
    // The name for the schema
    name: "MyEventSchema",
    // The type of data format, for example, 'OpenApi3', 'JSONSchemaDraft4', 'Avro', ...
    type: "OpenApi3",
    // The definition of the schema in JSON format
    content: `{
        "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-04/schema#",
        "title": "Event",
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
            "id": {
                "type": "string"
            },
            "timestamp": {
                "type": "string",
                "format": "date-time"
            }
        },
        "required": ["id", "timestamp"]
    }`,
    // Additional options like tags or description can be added here.
});

// Export the ARN of the registry and the schema for further use
export const registryArn = registry.arn;
export const schemaArn = mySchema.arn;
```

This program sets up the cloud infrastructure required for AWS Schema Registry. To use these schemas for generating code bindings:

1. You can use the AWS Console, which provides a user interface to generate code bindings for supported languages directly from a schema.
2. Programmatically generate the code bindings using AWS SDK's or tools like `aws eventschemas` for the AWS CLI.

Please note that the schema content in this example is a simplified JSON schema. You would replace this with the schema that corresponds to your actual event data structure.

You can further enhance this program by including steps to create a policy for the schema registry or setting up Discoverers in AWS EventBridge, which allow for schema inference from events on associated event buses.