JSON Schemas

Important Capabilities

Capability	Status	Notes
Descriptions	✅	Extracts descriptions at top level and field level
Detect Deleted Entities	✅	With stateful ingestion enabled, will remove entities from DataHub if they are no longer present in the source
Extract Ownership	❌	Does not currently support extracting ownership
Extract Tags	❌	Does not currently support extracting tags
Platform Instance	✅	Supports platform instance via config
Schema Metadata	✅	Extracts schemas, following references

This source extracts metadata from a single JSON Schema or multiple JSON Schemas rooted at a particular path. It performs reference resolution based on the $ref keyword.

Metadata mapping:

• Schemas are mapped to Datasets with sub-type Schema
• The name of the Schema (Dataset) is inferred from the $id property and if that is missing, the file name.
• Browse paths are minted based on the path

CLI based Ingestion

Install the Plugin

pip install 'acryl-datahub[json-schema]'

Starter Recipe

Check out the following recipe to get started with ingestion! See below for full configuration options.

For general pointers on writing and running a recipe, see our main recipe guide.

pipeline_name: json_schema_ingestion
source:
  type: json-schema
  config:
    path: <path_to_json_file_or_directory or url> # e.g. https://json.schemastore.org/petstore-v1.0.json
    platform: <choose a platform that you want schemas to live under> # e.g. schemaregistry
    # platform_instance: <add a platform_instance if there are multiple schema repositories>
    stateful_ingestion:
      enabled: true # recommended to have this turned on

# sink configs if needed

Config Details

Options

Note that a . is used to denote nested fields in the YAML recipe.

Field	Description
path ✅ One of string(file-path), string(directory-path), string(uri)	Set this to a single file-path or a directory-path (for recursive traversal) or a remote url. e.g. https://json.schemastore.org/petstore-v1.0.json
platform ✅ string	Set this to a platform that you want all schemas to live under. e.g. schemaregistry / schemarepo etc.
platform_instance string	The instance of the platform that all assets produced by this recipe belong to
use_id_as_base_uri boolean	When enabled, uses the $id field in the json schema as the base uri for following references. Default: False
env string	The environment that all assets produced by this connector belong to Default: PROD
uri_replace_pattern URIReplacePattern	Use this if URI-s need to be modified during reference resolution. Simple string match - replace capabilities are supported.
uri_replace_pattern.match ❓ string	Pattern to match on uri-s as part of reference resolution. See replace field
uri_replace_pattern.replace ❓ string	Pattern to replace with as part of reference resolution. See match field
stateful_ingestion StatefulStaleMetadataRemovalConfig	Base specialized config for Stateful Ingestion with stale metadata removal capability.
stateful_ingestion.enabled boolean	The type of the ingestion state provider registered with datahub. Default: False
stateful_ingestion.ignore_new_state boolean	If set to True, ignores the current checkpoint state. Default: False
stateful_ingestion.ignore_old_state boolean	If set to True, ignores the previous checkpoint state. Default: False
stateful_ingestion.remove_stale_metadata boolean	Soft-deletes the entities present in the last successful run but missing in the current run with stateful_ingestion enabled. Default: True

Schema

The JSONSchema for this configuration is inlined below.

{
  "title": "JsonSchemaSourceConfig",
  "description": "Base configuration class for stateful ingestion for source configs to inherit from.",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "env": {
      "title": "Env",
      "description": "The environment that all assets produced by this connector belong to",
      "default": "PROD",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "platform_instance": {
      "title": "Platform Instance",
      "description": "The instance of the platform that all assets produced by this recipe belong to",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "stateful_ingestion": {
      "$ref": "#/definitions/StatefulStaleMetadataRemovalConfig"
    },
    "path": {
      "title": "Path",
      "description": "Set this to a single file-path or a directory-path (for recursive traversal) or a remote url. e.g. https://json.schemastore.org/petstore-v1.0.json",
      "anyOf": [
        {
          "type": "string",
          "format": "file-path"
        },
        {
          "type": "string",
          "format": "directory-path"
        },
        {
          "type": "string",
          "minLength": 1,
          "maxLength": 65536,
          "format": "uri"
        }
      ]
    },
    "platform": {
      "title": "Platform",
      "description": "Set this to a platform that you want all schemas to live under. e.g. schemaregistry / schemarepo etc.",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "use_id_as_base_uri": {
      "title": "Use Id As Base Uri",
      "description": "When enabled, uses the `$id` field in the json schema as the base uri for following references.",
      "default": false,
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    "uri_replace_pattern": {
      "title": "Uri Replace Pattern",
      "description": "Use this if URI-s need to be modified during reference resolution. Simple string match - replace capabilities are supported.",
      "allOf": [
        {
          "$ref": "#/definitions/URIReplacePattern"
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "path",
    "platform"
  ],
  "additionalProperties": false,
  "definitions": {
    "DynamicTypedStateProviderConfig": {
      "title": "DynamicTypedStateProviderConfig",
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "type": {
          "title": "Type",
          "description": "The type of the state provider to use. For DataHub use `datahub`",
          "type": "string"
        },
        "config": {
          "title": "Config",
          "description": "The configuration required for initializing the state provider. Default: The datahub_api config if set at pipeline level. Otherwise, the default DatahubClientConfig. See the defaults (https://github.com/datahub-project/datahub/blob/master/metadata-ingestion/src/datahub/ingestion/graph/client.py#L19)."
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "type"
      ],
      "additionalProperties": false
    },
    "StatefulStaleMetadataRemovalConfig": {
      "title": "StatefulStaleMetadataRemovalConfig",
      "description": "Base specialized config for Stateful Ingestion with stale metadata removal capability.",
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "enabled": {
          "title": "Enabled",
          "description": "The type of the ingestion state provider registered with datahub.",
          "default": false,
          "type": "boolean"
        },
        "ignore_old_state": {
          "title": "Ignore Old State",
          "description": "If set to True, ignores the previous checkpoint state.",
          "default": false,
          "type": "boolean"
        },
        "ignore_new_state": {
          "title": "Ignore New State",
          "description": "If set to True, ignores the current checkpoint state.",
          "default": false,
          "type": "boolean"
        },
        "remove_stale_metadata": {
          "title": "Remove Stale Metadata",
          "description": "Soft-deletes the entities present in the last successful run but missing in the current run with stateful_ingestion enabled.",
          "default": true,
          "type": "boolean"
        }
      },
      "additionalProperties": false
    },
    "URIReplacePattern": {
      "title": "URIReplacePattern",
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "match": {
          "title": "Match",
          "description": "Pattern to match on uri-s as part of reference resolution. See replace field",
          "type": "string"
        },
        "replace": {
          "title": "Replace",
          "description": "Pattern to replace with as part of reference resolution. See match field",
          "type": "string"
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "match",
        "replace"
      ],
      "additionalProperties": false
    }
  }
}

Configuration Notes

• You must provide a platform field. Most organizations have custom project names for their schema repositories, so you can pick whatever name makes sense. For example, you might want to call your schema platform schemaregistry. After picking a custom platform, you can use the put platform command to register your custom platform into DataHub.

Code Coordinates

• Class Name: datahub.ingestion.source.schema.json_schema.JsonSchemaSource
• Browse on GitHub

Questions

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