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Show Data Source

Shows information about a specified data source or all data sources.

Input Parameter Description

Name	Type	Description
name	string	Name of the data source for which to retrieve information. The name must refer to a currently existing data source. If '*' is specified, information about all data sources will be returned.
options	map of string to strings	Optional parameters. The default value is an empty map ( {} ).

Name

Type

Description

datasource_names

array of strings

The data source names.

storage_provider_types

array of strings

The storage provider type of the data sources named in output parameter datasource_names.

Possible List Entries	Description
hdfs	Apache Hadoop Distributed File System
s3	Amazon S3 bucket

additional_info

array of maps of string to strings

Additional information about the respective data sources in output parameter datasource_names.

Possible List Entries

Description

map of string to strings

The default value is an empty map ( {} ).

Possible Parameters (keys)	Parameter Description
location	Location of the remote storage in 'storage_provider_type://[storage_path[:storage_port]]' format
s3_bucket_name	Name of the Amazon S3 bucket used as the data source
s3_region	Name of the Amazon S3 region where the bucket is located
hdfs_kerberos_keytab	Kerberos key for the given HDFS user
user_name	Name of the remote system user

info

map of string to strings

Additional information.