When a an organization wants to exposes data prep tool to it's expose the Wrangler to its end users, they would like to have the ability to restrict (exclude) directives that are not considered "safe". Safe is very subjective and varies from organization to organization. Also, the "Safe"ness of an a data operation could go through approval process and later excluded from the restricted list. So, in short, the capability to restrict and un-restrict has be easily configurable.
Second common use-case we have seen is that an organization is accustomed to a an organizational jargon and it's hard to adapt, it's not impossible, it just hard.
In order to support these kind of usage, Data Prep the Wrangler has added the capability to exclude and as well as alias a directive with a simple configuration.
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There are two configuration supported by Data Prep nowthe Wrangler:
Exclusion (a.k.a Restriction) and
Aliasing
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{
"exclusions" : [
"root-directive",
...
"root-directive"
],
"aliases" : {
"alias" : "alias-name",
...
"alias" : "alias-name"
}
}
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Exclusion
It's a an array of directives that are either loaded by default or could be loaded as UDD (User Defined Directives) or they can also be aliased directives.
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