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Entity History Retrieval Profile

The performance of programmatically retrieving the history of existing entity instances based on their ID.

The Open Metadata Repository Services (OMRS) interface for a metadata repository defines methods for retrieving the history of entity instances by their ID:

Method Description
getEntityDetail retrieves an entity instance's details at a given point in time, if the entity was known at that point in time, or throws an exception if not
getEntityDetailHistory retrieves the full history of an entity instance's details
Assertions
ID Description
repository-entity-history-retrieval-performance-getEntityDetail See (2) in detailed logic below.
repository-entity-history-retrieval-performance-getEntityDetailHistory See (3) in detailed logic below.

For every entity type supported by the technology under test, this profile does the following (in order):

  1. Searches for instancesPerType entity GUIDs of that type. (This uses findEntities and its performance is recorded as part of the entity search profile.)
  2. For each of these entity GUIDs, getEntityDetail is then called with an asOfTime using the timestamp captured prior to the execution of the Entity Update profile, to retrieve its historical details from that point in time (prior to any updates).
  3. For each of these entity GUIDs, getEntityDetailHistory is then called to retrieve its full history (including current version and all historical versions of the instance).

Example

So, for example, if the technology under test supports 50 entity types, and the instancesPerType parameter is set to 100, then this profile will retrieve 50 (types) x 100 (instances per type) x 2 (operations) = 10 000 entities. (And it will run findEntities 50 times.)

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