Template transform

The template transform comes with a bundle of pre-defined transform templates. These are meant to be used for specific use-cases. At this time the following named templates are available:

The common configuration options are:

Prototype

{
    "type": "template",
    "properties": {
        "some-property": "some-value"
    },
    "template": "template-name"
}

Properties

Property

Type

Description

Default

Req

template

String | Object

The name of the template, i.e. transform-collect-rest, transform-defaults-rest or transform-share-rest. For development purposes one can also include the template body in this property to override the built-in version.

Yes

properties

Object

A dictionary of properties that are passed to the template. The actual properties that each template takes will vary. See the template specific documentation below.

Yes

transform-collect-rest

This template transform is used in a collect pipe to retrieve the $origin property from the share pipes sink dataset. It will do this by hop-ing to the share sink dataset by joining the primary key with the $generated_id property.

The configuration options for this template are:

Prototype

{
    "type": "template",
    "properties": {
        "rest_system": "hubspot-139567314",
        "operation_lookup": "deal-lookup",
        "operation_lookup_properties": {
        },
        "original_property": "_original",
        "primary_key": "id",
        "share_dataset": "hubspot-139567314-hubspot-deal-share"
    },
    "template": "transform-collect-rest"
}

Template properties

Property

Type

Description

Default

Req

rest_system

String

The id of the REST system to use.

Yes

primary_key

String | List<String>

The names of the properties that hold the primary key of the entity.

Yes

share_dataset

String

The name of the corresponding share dataset. The template will hop to the share dataset to retrieve the $origin property.

Yes

operation_lookup

String

The id of the REST system operation to use for lookups. This operation is used to apply the source with parameterized input pattern.

Yes

operation_lookup_properties

Object

The properties to pass to the lookup operation.

No

original_property

String

Used to get access to the original source entity as was before the lookup operation. If you set this property to e.g. _original then the original source entity will be available in that property after the transform template.

No

operation_lookup_delete

String

The id of the REST system operation to use for lookups of deletes. This property takes precedence over operation_lookup, so the two cannot be used at the same time. This operation is used to do lookups of deleted entities to verify that they are actually non-existent in the system. If the entitiy does exist, then the _deleted property will be rewritten to be false.

Yes

operation_lookup_delete_properties

Object

The properties to pass to the lookup of deletes operation.

No

transform-defaults-rest

This template transform is used when you want to merge the source entity’s properties with the response body from a default values lookup REST operation. The source entity’s properties takes precedence.

The configuration options for this template are:

Prototype

{
    "type": "template",
    "properties": {
        "rest_system": "hubspot-139567314",
        "operation": "deal-lookup",
        "operation_properties": {
        },
        "primary_key": "id"
    },
    "template": "transform-defaults-rest"
}

Template properties

Property

Type

Description

Default

Req

rest_system

String

The id of the REST system to use.

Yes

primary_key

String | List<String>

The names of the properties that hold the primary key of the entity.

Yes

operation

String

The name of the operation to use to retrieve the default values.

No

operation_properties

Object

The properties to pass to the default values operation.

No

transform-share-rest

This template transform is used in a share pipe to perform CRUD operations against a REST system. It will perform an optimistic locking check to avoid overwriting changes that happened after the data was read from the system.

Note

If the source entity contains "$unsafe_skip_optimistic_locking": true then the entity will still be updated even if the comparison yields the result modified-in-system. This is a mechanism to skip optimistic locking and it is primarily meant for use-cases when the data needs repairing. Use it with care.

The configuration options for this template are:

Prototype

{
    "type": "template",
    "properties": {
        "rest_system": "hubspot-139567314",
        "operation_lookup": "lookup-deal",
        "operation_lookup_properties": {
        },
        "original_property": "_original",
        "primary_key": "id",
        "share_dataset": "hubspot-139567314-hubspot-deal-share"
    },
    "template": "transform-collect-rest"
}

Template properties

Property

Type

Description

Default

Req

rest_system

String

The id of the REST system to use.

Yes

primary_key

String | List<String>

The names of the properties that hold the primary key of the entity.

Yes

primary_key_insert

String | List<String>

The names of the properties that hold the primary key of the entity. Use this property if the to-be inserted entity has a different primary key than in the other operations.

No

is_natural_key

Boolean

If true then the primary key is a natural key. This means that the primary key is a natural part of the entity and is not being generated by the server-side on insert.

false

No

share_dataset

String

The name of the corresponding share dataset. The template will hop to the share dataset to retrieve the $origin property.

Yes

payload_property

String

Specifies the name of the property that should be used for the request payload (update or insert). This is used when you need to use a custom property for the payload.

payload

No

operation_lookup

String

The name of the lookup operation.

lookup

No

operation_insert

String

The name of the insert operation.

insert

No

operation_update

String

The name of the update operation.

update

No

operation_delete

String

The name of the delete operation.

delete

No

operation_lookup_properties

Object

The properties to pass to the lookup operation.

No

operation_insert_properties

Object

The properties to pass to the insert operation.

No

operation_update_properties

Object

The properties to pass to the update operation.

No

operation_delete_properties

Object

The properties to pass to the delete operation.

No

lookup_allowed_status_codes

String

Override the default value for the allowed_status_codes for the lookup operation. Restricting the status codes will make the pipe fail for the excluded status codes.

100-599

No

insert_allowed_status_codes

String

Override the default value for the allowed_status_codes for the insert operation. Restricting the status codes will make the pipe fail for the excluded status codes.

100-599

No

update_allowed_status_codes

String

Override the default value for the allowed_status_codes for the update operation. Restricting the status codes will make the pipe fail for the excluded status codes.

100-599

No

delete_allowed_status_codes

String

Override the default value for the allowed_status_codes for the delete operation. Restricting the status codes will make the pipe fail for the excluded status codes.

100-599

No

rules

Object

A dictionary of DTL named rules. This can be used to implement the lookup_rewrite, lookup_rewrite_based_on and lookup_rewrite_update named rules, which when defined will be used to rewrite the lookup response body. The lookup_rewrite named rule is used as a fallback if lookup_rewrite_based_on or lookup_rewrite_update is not specified. lookup_rewrite_based_on is used to rewrite the lookup response before it is used to create the $based_on_lookup value. lookup_rewrite_update is used to rewrite the lookup response before using it for client side patching (see client_side_patching).

No

rewrite_rules_payload

Object

A dictionary of DTL named rules. This can be used to implement the rewrite_update_payload and rewrite_insert_payload named rules, which when defined will be used to rewrite the update and insert request payloads. The rule is passed the _S. entity and the original source entity can be found in _S.$source. These rules take precedence over the $payload property. It can also include other named rules referenced directly or indirectly by the base rules. The rule should return a dict with the new payload inside the $payload property.

It can also be used to implement the rewrite_update_payload_after_patch named rule which will rewrite the update payload after client-side patching is performed. The rule is passed an entity which contains the client-side patched payload in _S._payload. The original source entity can be found in _R._S.$source.

No

rewrite_rules_lookup

Object

A dictionary of DTL named rules. This can be used to implement the rewrite_lookup named rule, which when defined will be used to rewrite the lookup response body. It can also include other named rules referenced directly or indirectly by the base rule. The rule is passed the _S. entity returned from the lookup.

No

rewrite_rules_mutation

Object

A dictionary of DTL named rules. This can be used to implement the rewrite_update, rewrite_insert and rewrite_delete named rules, which when defined will be used to rewrite the update, insert and delete responses. It can also include other named rules referenced directly or indirectly by the base rules. The rule is passed the _S. entity returned from the mutation (i.e. update, insert or delete).

No

client_side_patching

Boolean

If set to true then the update payload will be built from the result of the lookup operation and then patched with the actual payload. The use-case for this is when the REST operation does not support patching, but instead requires a complete payload to be sent.

false

No

Special entity properties

Property

Type

Description

Req

$payload

Object

If you want to customize the request payload for the update and insert REST operations then put the customized request payload value into the $payload property.

No