Alation · Schema

Column

A table column in the Alation catalog

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Properties

Name	Type	Description
id	integer
name	string
title	string
description	string
data_type	string
table_id	integer
ds_id	integer
is_nullable	boolean
is_primary_key	boolean

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JSON Schema

{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/alation/refs/heads/main/json-schema/alation-alation-data-catalog-column-schema.json",
  "title": "Column",
  "description": "A table column in the Alation catalog",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "id": {
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "name": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "title": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "description": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "data_type": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "table_id": {
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "ds_id": {
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "is_nullable": {
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    "is_primary_key": {
      "type": "boolean"
    }
  }
}

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