Change owners

There are actually two kinds of owners per asset

There are actually two fields in Atlan that capture the owners of an asset: ownerUsers and ownerGroups.

The examples below illustrate how to change individual (user) owners. To change group owners, replace ownerUsers with ownerGroups.

Change existing asset

Could create a new asset

Remember that Atlan matches the provided qualifiedName to determine whether to update or create the asset.

To change owners on an existing asset:

dbt

Change owners on existing asset

models:
  - name: TOP_BEVERAGE_USERS # (1)
    meta:
      atlan:
        attributes: # (2)
          ownerUsers: ["jsmith", "jdoe"] # (3)

1. You must of course give the name of the object.

2. The usernames must be nested within the meta.atlan.attributes structure.

3. You must provide valid usernames, or email addresses, as a list.

   Users must be valid

If the user doesn't exist in Atlan, there will be no updates to the asset. Please verify the usernames or email addresses in Atlan before assigning them to assets. :::

Java

Change owners on existing asset

Table table = Table.updater( // (1)
        "default/snowflake/1657037873/SAMPLE_DB/FOOD_BEV/TOP_BEVERAGE_USERS", // (2)
        "TOP_BEVERAGE_USERS") // (3)
    .ownerUsers(List.of("jsmith", "jdoe")) // (4)
    .build(); // (5)
AssetMutationResponse response = table.save(client); // (6)
assert response.getUpdatedAssets().size() == 1 // (7)

1. Use the updater() helper method to create the minimal object necessary to do an update.
2. The qualifiedName of the object.
3. The name of the object.
4. Provide the new owners. Note that this is a list of the usernames of the users.
5. Build the updater into an object.
6. Send the update to Atlan. Because this operation will persist the asset in Atlan, you must provide it an AtlanClient through which to connect to the tenant.
7. The response will include that single asset that was updated.

Python

Change owners on existing asset

from pyatlan.client.atlan import AtlanClient
from pyatlan.model.assets import Table

client = AtlanClient()
table = Table.updater( # (1)
    qualified_name="default/snowflake/1657037873/SAMPLE_DB/FOOD_BEV/TOP_BEVERAGE_USERS",
    name="TOP_BEVERAGE_USERS",
)
table.owner_users = ["jsmith", "jdoe"] # (2)
response = client.asset.save(table) # (3)
assert 1 == len(response.assets_updated(asset_type=Table)) # (4)

1. Use the updater() method to create an asset suitable for modification that is, with all the requisite attributes.
2. Provide the new owners. Note that this is a list of the usernames of the users.
3. Send the update to Atlan.
4. The response should only include that single asset that was updated.

Kotlin

Change owners on existing asset

val table = Table.updater(  // (1)
        "default/snowflake/1657037873/SAMPLE_DB/FOOD_BEV/TOP_BEVERAGE_USERS",  // (2)
        "TOP_BEVERAGE_USERS")  // (3)
    .ownerUsers(listOf("jsmith", "jdoe"))  // (4)
    .build()  // (5)
val response = table.save(client)  // (6)
assert(response.updatedAssets.size == 1)  // (7)

1. Use the updater() helper method to create the minimal object necessary to do an update.
2. The qualifiedName of the object.
3. The name of the object.
4. Provide the new owners. Note that this is a list of the usernames of the users.
5. Build the updater into an object.
6. Send the update to Atlan. Because this operation will persist the asset in Atlan, you must provide it an AtlanClient through which to connect to the tenant.
7. The response will include that single asset that was updated.

Raw REST API

POST /api/meta/entity/bulk

{
  "entities": [ // (1)
    }
  ]
}

1. All assets must be wrapped in an entities array.
2. You must provide the exact type name for the asset (case-sensitive).
3. You must provide the exact name of the asset (case-sensitive).
4. You must provide the exact qualifiedName of the asset (case-sensitive).
5. Provide the new owners, as a list of usernames of users.

Remove from existing asset

To remove owners from an existing asset:

dbt

Remove owners from existing asset

models:
  - name: TOP_BEVERAGE_USERS # (1)
    meta:
      atlan:
        attributes: # (2)
          ownerUsers: [ "jdoe" ] # (3)

1. You must of course give the name of the object.

2. The details for the owners must be nested within the meta.atlan.attributes structure.

3. Specify only the usernames or email addresses of the users you want to keep as owners. (Compared to the other examples, this would remove jsmith and keep jdoe.)

   Users must be valid

If the user doesn't exist in Atlan, there will be no updates to the asset. Please verify the usernames or email addresses in Atlan before assigning them to assets. :::

Java

Remove owners from existing asset

Table table = Table.removeOwners( // (1)
    client, // (2)
    "default/snowflake/1657037873/SAMPLE_DB/FOOD_BEV/TOP_BEVERAGE_USERS", // (3)
    "TOP_BEVERAGE_USERS"); // (4)

1. Use the removeOwners() helper method, which for most objects requires a minimal set of information. This helper method will construct the necessary request, call the necessary APIs, and return with the result of the removal operation all-in-one.
2. Because this operation will directly change the asset in Atlan, you must provide it an AtlanClient through which to connect to the tenant.
3. The qualifiedName of the object.
4. The name of the object.

Python

Remove owners from existing asset

from pyatlan.client.atlan import AtlanClient
from pyatlan.model.assets import Table

client = AtlanClient()
table = Table.updater( # (1)
    qualified_name="default/snowflake/1657037873/SAMPLE_DB/FOOD_BEV/TOP_BEVERAGE_USERS",
    name="TOP_BEVERAGE_USERS",
)
table.owner_users = None # (2)
response = client.asset.save(table) # (3)
assert 1 == len(response.assets_updated(asset_type=Table)) # (4)

1. Use the updater() method to create an asset suitable for modification that is, with all the requisite attributes.
2. Set the owners to None.
3. Send the update to Atlan.
4. The response should only include that single asset that was updated (again, removing owners is an update to the asset—we'ren't deleting the asset itself).

Kotlin

Remove owners from existing asset

val table = Table.removeOwners(  // (1)
    client, // (2)
    "default/snowflake/1657037873/SAMPLE_DB/FOOD_BEV/TOP_BEVERAGE_USERS",  // (3)
    "TOP_BEVERAGE_USERS")  // (4)

1. Use the removeOwners() helper method, which for most objects requires a minimal set of information. This helper method will construct the necessary request, call the necessary APIs, and return with the result of the removal operation all-in-one.
2. Because this operation will directly change the asset in Atlan, you must provide it an AtlanClient through which to connect to the tenant.
3. The qualifiedName of the object.
4. The name of the object.

Raw REST API

POST /api/meta/entity/bulk

{
  "entities": [ // (1)
    }
  ]
}

1. All assets must be wrapped in an entities array.
2. You must provide the exact type name for the asset (case-sensitive).
3. You must provide the exact name of the asset (case-sensitive).
4. You must provide the exact qualifiedName of the asset (case-sensitive).
5. You must set the ownerUsers and ownerGroups to an empty list.

When creating asset

To add owners when creating an asset:

dbt

Add owners when creating asset

models:
  - name: TOP_BEVERAGE_USERS # (1)
    meta:
      atlan:
        attributes: # (2)
          ownerUsers: ["jsmith", "jdoe"] # (3)

1. You must of course give the name of the object.

2. The usernames must be nested within the meta.atlan.attributes structure.

3. You must provide valid usernames, or email addresses, as a list.

   Users must be valid

If the user doesn't exist in Atlan, there will be no updates to the asset. Please verify the usernames or email addresses in Atlan before assigning them to assets. :::

Java

Add owners when creating asset

Table table = Table
    .creator("TOP_BEVERAGE_USERS", // (1)
        "default/snowflake/1657037873/SAMPLE_DB/FOOD_BEV")
    .ownerUsers(List.of("jsmith", "jdoe")) // (2)
    .build(); // (3)
AssetMutationResponse response = table.save(client); // (4)
assert response.getCreatedAssets().size() == 1 // (5)

1. Use the creator() method to initialize the object with all necessary attributes for creating it](../advanced-examples/create.md#build-minimal-object-needed).
2. Set the owners that should be added. Note that this is a list of the usernames of the users.
3. Call the build() method to build the enriched object.
4. Call the save() method to actually create the asset with these owners. Because this operation will persist the asset in Atlan, you must provide it an AtlanClient through which to connect to the tenant.
5. The response will include that single asset that was created.

Python

Add owners when creating asset

from pyatlan.client.atlan import AtlanClient
from pyatlan.model.assets import Table

client = AtlanClient()
table = Table.creator( # (1)
    name="TOP_BEVERAGE_USERS",
    schema_qualified_name="default/snowflake/1657037873/SAMPLE_DB/FOOD_BEV",
)
table.owner_users = ["jsmith", "jdoe"] # (2)
response = client.asset.save(table) # (3)
assert 1 == len(assets_created := response.assets_created(asset_type=Table)) # (4)
table = assets_created[0] # (5)

1. Use the creator() method to initialize the object with all necessary attributes for creating it.
2. Set the owners that should be added. Note that this is a list of the usernames of the users.
3. Call the save() method to actually create the asset with these owners.
4. Since a save can add, update, delete or partially update multiple assets the assets_created() method can be used to return a list of the assets of the specified type that were added. The assert statement is present to make sure a Table asset was created.
5. Since only one Table has been created we use an index of 0 to retrieve the newly created table.

Kotlin

Add owners when creating asset

val table = Table
    .creator("TOP_BEVERAGE_USERS",  // (1)
        "default/snowflake/1657037873/SAMPLE_DB/FOOD_BEV")
    .ownerUsers(listOf("jsmith", "jdoe"))  // (2)
    .build()  // (3)
val response = table.save(client)  // (4)
assert(response.createdAssets.size == 1)  // (5)

1. Use the creator() method to initialize the object with all necessary attributes for creating it](../advanced-examples/create.md#build-minimal-object-needed).
2. Set the owners that should be added. Note that this is a list of the usernames of the users.
3. Call the build() method to build the enriched object.
4. Call the save() method to actually create the asset with these owners. Because this operation will persist the asset in Atlan, you must provide it an AtlanClient through which to connect to the tenant.
5. The response will include that single asset that was created.

Raw REST API

POST /api/meta/entity/bulk

{
  "entities": [ // (1)
        },
        "ownerUsers": [ "jsmith", "jdoe" ] // (6)
      }
    }
  ]
}

1. All assets must be wrapped in an entities array.
2. You must provide the exact type name for the asset (case-sensitive).
3. You must provide a name for the asset.
4. In the case of a table, the qualifiedName must be the concatenation of the parent schema's qualifiedName and the name of the table.
5. When creating a table, you must specify the schema to create it within. This is defined by the atlanSchema attribute. You must specify both the type (must be Schema) and qualifiedName of the schema within the atlanSchema attribute—and the schema must already exist.
6. Provide the owners, as a list of usernames of users.