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Talend Cloud Data Catalog: deprecated and removed items

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Removal of the Manage Custom Attributes page The Manage Custom Attributes page has been removed.

Custom attributes are now defined in the Manage Metamodel page.

The repository database upgrade includes a Migrate Custom Attributes to Metamodel operation.

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Removal of the Category object The Category object has been removed. Categories were the only way to create a term hierarchy in the previous versions. Terms no longer require the creation of a category.

The repository database upgrade includes a Migrate Glossaries to Metamodel operation. The categories from previous versions are now migrated as terms without losing the hierarchy at the instance level. Any MQL use of categories has been updated to terms as part of the migration. The count of terms can be higher as categories are now terms.

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Removed worksheet attributes
  • The Last Modified Date and Last Viewed Date attributes have been renamed to Updated Date and Viewed Date.
  • The Business Name Inferred, Business Name Inferred Origin, Business Description Inferred, Business Description Inferred Origin attributes have been replaced with the new Documentation attributes.
  • The Certifications, Endorsements, Comments, Warnings attributes have been renamed to Certified By, Endorsed By, Commented By, Warned By.
  • The Used attribute has been renamed to Has Semantic Usage.
  • The Semantic Types attribute has been renamed to Data Classifications.
  • Inferred Semantic Types widget has been moved to a new attribute Data Classifications Matched.
  • Term and Documentation glossary attributes have been renamed to Is Defined By and Long Description.

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Deprecated API features The following functions have been deprecated:
  • POST/entities/executeMQLQuery parameter legacyEntityFormat
  • POST/entities/getAttributeDistinctValueCounts
  • POST/entities/getInferredSemanticObjects
  • GET/types/listEntityTypes
  • GET/repository/customAttributes/{nameOrId}
  • PUT/repository/setCustomAttributes
  • parameter categoryPath in POST/entities/glossary
  • functions related to the semantic types

These functions will continue to work in this new version and will be removed in the next major release. For more information, click the See General Documentation link from the Talend Cloud Data Catalog REST API documentation page.

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Removed API features
  • These functions no longer comply with the new system of object roles.
    • GET/admin/grants/{objectId} has been replaced with GET/admin/grants/getObjectRoles/{objectId}.
    • PUT/admin/grants/{objectId}/{userGroupId} has been replaced with PUT/admin/grants/grantObjectRole/{objectId} and PUT/admin/grants/revokeObjectRole/{objectId}.
    • GET/admin/stewards/{objectId} has been replaced with GET/admin/grants/getObjectGrantees/{objectId}.
    • PUT/admin/stewards/{objectId} has been replaced with PUT/admin/grants/grantObjectRole/{objectId} and PUT/admin/grants/revokeObjectRole/{objectId}.
  • All steward related fields have been removed from the schemas. For example, the CreateUser and CreateUserGroup no longer have the steward field.

Ensure that you do not use these functions before upgrading. For more information, click the See General Documentation link from the Talend Cloud Data Catalog REST API documentation page.

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Removed MQL filter attributes The following MQL filter attributes have been removed including steward, object_type, last_modified, label, semantic_type, endorsed_by, certified_by, commented_by and warned_by.

Ensure that you do not use these attributes before upgrading. For more information, click the See General Documentation link from the Talend Cloud Data Catalog REST API documentation page.

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Removed single-model database import

Single-model database import is removed.

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