Aura entities definition in Avro format

Introduction

The Aura entities definition includes the different entities currently written in Aura in Avro format, URM-compliant.

For further information regarding Kernel Avro datasets access the following links:

• How to handle datasets in Kernel
• Kernel datasets

Entities generated in Avro URM-compliant format

Entities generation

Avro Entities tables nomenclature

• Position: Field order in the Avro schema definition.
• Field: Name of the field being defined. Usually, capitalized, although more aliases will be available in the schema definition.
• PK: Parameter that indicates if the field is a Primary Key or not, that is, a value that uniquely identifies this field.
• Referenced Entity: When the field references a value from another dataset, indicating that a join must be defined in the schema, this parameter contains the name of the dataset.
• Referenced Entity Field: When the field references a value from another dataset, indicating that a join must be defined in the schema, this parameter contains the name of the field of the other dataset.
• Type: Type of the field. It can be one of Avro logical types defined in Kernel.
• Doc: Brief description of the field.
• Nullable doc: If the field can be null, it should contain the cases when a null value is valid.