Created 06-18-2017 02:20 PM
Could someone help me understand when I would use the 'options' property? It's part of the AtlasBaseTypeDefs and has a type of 'map of string'. In the below example I can create an entity type, but I don't know how to use the 'options' property and under what circumstances I would want to.
{
"enumDefs":[],
"structDefs":[],
"classificationDefs":[],
"entityDefs":[
{
"superTypes":[
"DataSet"
],
"name":"test_entity_3",
"description":"test_entity_3",
"createdBy": "admin",
"updatedBy": "admin",
"options" :
{
"property1" : "when_to_use_1",
"property2" : "when_to_use_2"
},
"attributeDefs":[
{
"name":"test_3",
"isOptional":true,
"isUnique":false,
"isIndexable":false,
"typeName":"string",
"valuesMaxCount":1,
"cardinality":"SINGLE",
"valuesMinCount":0
}
]
}
]
}
Created 06-19-2017 05:27 PM
@Laura Ngo, "options" was added to AtlasBaseTypeDef to allow additional metadata properties to be included with the type definition. These properties allow users to specify any key/value property or constraint on the type definition e.g.
cluster = test_cluster
contains_all_primitive_attributes=true
The options map is not being used currently but added for future use cases.
Created 06-19-2017 04:04 PM
As per my knowledge these are only being used for UI rendering. It acts like additional metadata about the entity.
Created 06-19-2017 05:27 PM
@Laura Ngo, "options" was added to AtlasBaseTypeDef to allow additional metadata properties to be included with the type definition. These properties allow users to specify any key/value property or constraint on the type definition e.g.
cluster = test_cluster
contains_all_primitive_attributes=true
The options map is not being used currently but added for future use cases.