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Events when asset is created

When an asset is created in Atlan, the following events can be emitted.

ENTITY_CREATE​

Atlan always emits an ENTITY_CREATE event when an asset is created. The details in the event are for the asset that was created.

ENTITY_UPDATE​

When a relationship is defined as part of asset creation, Atlan will also emit an ENTITY_UPDATE event. The details in this event cover the related asset.

Parent-child relationships

For example, a column in Atlan must exist within a table.

  • When a column is created, the table must be specified.
  • An ENTITY_UPDATE event will be emitted for the table in which that column was created.
Details of the relationship aren't included in detail.message.mutatedDetails

In the case of a parent-child relationship, the details of the relationship aren't included in the ENTITY_UPDATE event's payload.

Peer-to-peer relationships

For example, specifying a term to link to a column when creating the column.

  • An ENTITY_UPDATE event will be emitted for the term that's specified.

Note: this means a single asset creation (single ENTITY_CREATE event) could emit any number of ENTITY_UPDATE events.

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