Understand the Discovery YAML file content

Each Metadata Repository contains a discoveries folder (See Understand the Project Metadata Repository content).

In this folder, there is one subfolder for each Source System.

In each Source System folder, the corresponding Discovery YAML files are stored.

Each file contains all the metadata for a Discovery.

It is identical to the Discovery YAML file produced by the Discovery application. Only the Source System type is added.

Discovery file details

After the discovery is created, the file should look like the following:

id: 6adc0785-993a-4e39-9984-4bd1fd3f2351
name: mssql_adw_production_output.json
timestamp: 'XXXX-05-22T09:38:24.9555608+00:00'
appVersion: '1.2.0'
sourceSystem:
  type: Microsoft SQL Server
sourceObjects:
  - name: Product
    fullyQualifiedName: AdventureWorks2017.Production.Product
    objectType: {}
    terms:
      - name: ProductID
        sourceDataType:
          name: INTEGER
          isNullable: false
        dataType:
          name: int
        isIdentity: false
        isBusinessKey: true
        isForeignKey: false
      - name: Name
        sourceDataType:
          name: NVARCHAR
          length: 50
          isNullable: false
        dataType:
          name: NVARCHAR
          length: 50
        isIdentity: false
        isBusinessKey: false
        isForeignKey: false
        ....

The different nodes contain: