Using connectors

Connectors can be created through the Connection Maker

Connecting to assets with different levels of security¶

It is possible that an asset can have multiple connections, each with different levels of security access encoded. Egeria is able to determine which one to use by calling the validateUserForAssetConnectionList() method of the Server Security Metadata Connector.

Other links to the connection¶

Open metadata is a connected network (graph) of information. The connector type and endpoint that a connection object links to are typically shared with many connections. This creates some interesting insight.

For example, there is typically one connector type for each connector implementation. By retrieving the relationships from the connector type to the connections, it is possible to see the extent to which the connector is used.

Connector types¶

The connector types for Egeria's data store connectors are available in an open metadata archive called DataStoreConnectorTypes.json that can be loaded into the server. This approach can be used for all of your connector implementations to create the connector type objects in our metadata repository. See the open-connector-archives for more detail.