Column Data Supplier

About

A data supplier defines how data is supplied to a column.

Syntax

This syntax is in a data definition format that can be used:

in a resource generator (aka generator) to define the data generated for each columns.
pr in the enrich operation to define virtual columns

Columns:
  - name: columnName
  # the data supplier
    data-supplier:
      # the data supplier type
      type: sequence
      # the arguments of the data supplier type
      arguments:
        start: 3
        step: 2
        maxTick: 5

List

Name	Generator/Enrich support	Description
Data Set	Generator/Enrich	Generates data from a data set
Entity	Generator/Enrich	Generates data from an entity data set
Expression	Generator/Enrich	Supplies derived data (expression from other columns)
Histogram	Generator/Enrich	Generates a distribution of data
Meta	Enrich	Add metadata from input data resources (such as file name, …)
Random	Generator/Enrich	Generates data randomly
Regular Expression	Generator/Enrich	Generates data from a regular expression
Sequence	Generator/Enrich	Generates data in sequence