Connections

Overview

Declare a named connection per source system. Referenced from per-table YAMLA simple way to write configurations. It's basically a list that computers can read easily. via Connection:. Drives both the Fabric connection item and the runtime loader's source-system behavior.

Example YAML

Dataplatform/DP/Connections/adv-advworks/adv-advworks.yaml

ConnectionName: adv-advworks
ConnectionPrefix: adv
ConnectionType: fabricfiles
BronzeFolder: advworks
FileType: csv
FileExtension: csv
Delimiter: ","
Header: true
IsBronzeStringTypes: true
Multiline: true
Escape: '"'
Dateformat: "yyyy-M-d"

Schema reference

Required fields marked *. Linked types are collapsible — click to expand inline.

Fabric Connection

Name	Type	Description
ConnectionName *	String	Name of the connection
ConnectionPrefix *	String	Prefix that will be used when connection prefix is set to true (default) in Configuration

Show optional fields (3)

Name	Type	Description
BronzeTableSettings	FabricTableSettings	Table Settings for Bronze
IsBronzeStringTypes	Nullable<true/false>	Create fields in bronze tables (landing) with string type for this connection. Overrides FabricConfiguration.IsBronzeStringTypes; inherits it when unset. (default=inherit, config default true)
SilverTableSettings	FabricTableSettings	Table Settings for Silver

Runtime-only fields

These fields are read by the EasyFabric Runtime (EFR) at runtime and have no EasyFabric Generator (EFG) counterpart.

• connectiontype
• container
• bronzefolder
• delimiter
• header
• filetype
• multiline
• escape
• jsonpath
• dateformat

Related data classes

• easyfabric.data.Connection