Ashutosh Mestry created ATLAS-2813:
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Summary: Atlas Entity: Support New Attribute Called SoftReference
Key: ATLAS-2813
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ATLAS-2813
Project: Atlas
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: atlas-core
Affects Versions: 0.8.3
Reporter: Ashutosh Mestry
Assignee: Ashutosh Mestry
Fix For: 0.8.3
*Background*
Cases where types have attributes that reference other objects, existing
implementation creates an edge between referencing object and referenced object.
It may be worthwhile to have this behavior enforced via an attribute.
Example within existing implementation, is the use of _replicatedToCluster_
attribute. This forces every entity having this attribute set to create an edge
to the _AtlasCluster_ entity it is referring to.
*Approach Guidance*
* Define new attribute say _softRefrence._ This will be applied to attribute
definition.
* When defined, the object Id is stored within the referring object similar to
primitive types.
* When not defined, the types will continue to use current behavior, where
edge is created between referring entity and the referred entity and the edge
id is stored within the parent entity.
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