Flow

A flow is the primary unit of execution in Ascend and contains a collection of components assembled into a directed acyclic graph (DAG).

Examples

simple_flow_name_description.yaml

flow:
  name: "Simple Flow"
  description: "This is a simple flow with only a name and description."

flow_with_runner_and_version.yaml

flow:
  name: "MyFlow"
  description: "A flow with a specific runner and version."
  runner: "custom-runner"
  version: "1.0.0"

flow_with_specific_data_plane.yaml

flow:
  name: "Example Flow"
  description: "A flow with a specific data plane."
  data_plane:
    connection_name: "specific-connection"

Flow

Below are the properties for the Flow. Each property links to the specific details section further down in this page.

Property	Default	Type	Required	Description
flow		FlowOptions	Yes

Property Details

FlowOptions

Defines the options for a Flow

Property	Default	Type	Required	Description
name		string	No	The name of the model
description		string	No	A brief description of what the model does.
metadata		ResourceMetadata	No	Meta information of a resource. In most cases it doesn't affect the system behavior but may be helpful to analyze project resources.
parameters		object	No	Dictionary of parameters to use for resource.
defaults		array[ConfigFilter]	No	List of default configs with filters that can be applied to a resource config.
data_plane		DataPlane	No	Data plane to use for the flow.
version		string	No	The version of the flow.
bootstrap		string	No	Bootstrap command to run within the Docker container.
runner	ascend	string	No	Runner id to use for running the flow. defaults to 'ascend'

ConfigFilter

A filter used to target configuration settings to a specific flow and/or component.

Property	Default	Type	Required	Description
kind		string ("Flow", "Component")	Yes	The kind of the resource to apply the config to.
name		Any of:   string   array[string]   RegexFilter   array[RegexFilter]	Yes	Name of the resource to apply the config to.
flow_name		string	No	Name of the flow to apply the config to.
spec		Any of:   FlowSpec   ComponentSpec	No	Dictionary of parameters to use for the resource.

ComponentSpec

Specification for configuration applied to a component at runtime based on the config filter.

Property	Default	Type	Required	Description
data_plane		One of:     SnowflakeDataPlane     BigQueryDataPlane     DuckdbDataPlane     SynapseDataPlane	No	Data Plane-specific configuration options for a component.
skip	False	boolean	No

FlowSpec

Specification for configuration applied to a flow at runtime based on the config filter.

Property	Default	Type	Required	Description
data_plane		DataPlane	No	The data plane that will be used for the flow at runtime.

DataPlane

The external warehouse where data is persisted throughout the flow runs, and where primary computation on the data itself occurs.

Property	Default	Type	Required	Description
connection_name		string	No
metadata_storage_location_prefix		string	No	Prefix to prepend to the names of metadata tables created for this flow. The prefix may include database/project/etc and schema/dataset/etc where applicable. If not provided, metadata tables are stored alongside the output data tables per the data plane's connection configuration.

RegexFilter

A filter used to target resources based on a regex pattern.

Property	Default	Type	Required	Description
regex		string	Yes	The regex to filter the resources.

BigQueryDataPlane

Property	Default	Type	Required	Description
bigquery		BigQueryDataPlaneOptions	Yes	BigQuery configuration options.

BigQueryDataPlaneOptions

Property	Default	Type	Required	Description
partition_by		Any of:   BigQueryRangePartitioning   BigQueryTimePartitioning	No	Partition By clause for the table.
cluster_by		array[string]	No	Clustering keys to be added to the table.

BigQueryRangePartitioning

Property	Default	Type	Required	Description
field		string	Yes	Field to partition by.
range		RangeOptions	Yes	Range partitioning options.

BigQueryTimePartitioning

Property	Default	Type	Required	Description
field		string	Yes	Field to partition by.
granularity		string ("DAY", "HOUR", "MONTH", "YEAR")	Yes	Granularity of the time partitioning.

DuckdbDataPlane

Property	Default	Type	Required	Description
duckdb		DuckDbDataPlaneOptions	No	Duckdb configuration options.

DuckDbDataPlaneOptions

No properties defined.

RangeOptions

Property	Default	Type	Required	Description
start		integer	Yes	Start of the range partitioning.
end		integer	Yes	End of the range partitioning.
interval		integer	Yes	Interval of the range partitioning.

SnowflakeDataPlane

Property	Default	Type	Required	Description
snowflake		SnowflakeDataPlaneOptions	Yes	Snowflake configuration options.

SnowflakeDataPlaneOptions

Property	Default	Type	Required	Description
cluster_by		array[string]	No	Clustering keys to be added to the table.

SynapseDataPlane

Property	Default	Type	Required	Description
synapse		SynapseDataPlaneOptions	No	Duckdb configuration options.

SynapseDataPlaneOptions

No properties defined.

ResourceMetadata

Meta information of a resource. In most cases it doesn't affect the system behavior but may be helpful to analyze project resources.

Property	Default	Type	Required	Description
source		ResourceLocation	No	The origin or source information for the resource.
source_event_uuid		string	No	UUID of the event that is associated with creation of this resource.

ResourceLocation

The origin or source information for the resource.

Property	Default	Type	Required	Description
path		string	Yes	Path within repository files where the resource is defined.
first_line_number		integer	No	First line number within path file where the resource is defined.