What’s the difference between an AirbyteStream and...
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Luke Bussey
07/19/2021, 3:45 AMWhat’s the difference between an AirbyteStream and ConfiguredAirbyteStream?
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Davin Chia (Airbyte)
07/19/2021, 3:49 AM
An AirbyteStream defines the schema for that stream as well as the modes it supportes. A ConfiguredAirbyteStream wraps an AirbyteStream and includes fields indicating the selected mode
Davin Chia (Airbyte)
07/19/2021, 3:53 AM
e.g. this is the configured stream's generated Java model code
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private AirbyteStream stream;
private SyncMode syncMode;
private List<String> cursorField = new ArrayList<String>();
private DestinationSyncMode destinationSyncMode;
private List<List<String>> primaryKey = new ArrayList<List<String>>();
private Map<String, Object> additionalProperties = new HashMap<String, Object>();Davin Chia (Airbyte)
07/19/2021, 3:53 AM
the first field is the stream that is being configured, the rest of the fields are configuration information
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Luke Bussey
07/19/2021, 2:46 PMOk cool thanks
Luke Bussey
07/20/2021, 1:10 AMdo all of the fields from a http api have to be in the catalog to work?
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[DEPRECATED] Marcos Marx
07/20/2021, 4:59 PM
You can use a dynamic schema (if you are using the CDK). https://docs.airbyte.io/contributing-to-airbyte/python/concepts/schemas#dynamic-schemas
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Davin Chia (Airbyte)
07/21/2021, 1:13 AM
yes - our acceptance test do validate the API resources' schema so the api's resource schema should be identical to the stream's schema in the catalog