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[dbt] generate dbt package for a pipeline #118

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rudolfix opened this issue Jan 20, 2023 · 0 comments
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[dbt] generate dbt package for a pipeline #118

rudolfix opened this issue Jan 20, 2023 · 0 comments

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rudolfix commented Jan 20, 2023

Motivation
dlt automates extraction and loading data into a warehouse. it also infers table schema from the data and allows to add various hints uniqueness and nullability. the loading is "atomic" thanks to "load_id" mechanism where any new piece of data is marked with load_id which is flagged as valid after all the data was correctly loaded (see here https://github.com/dlt-hub/rasa_semantic_schema/blob/master/models/staging/load_ids.sql and https://github.com/dlt-hub/rasa_semantic_schema/blob/master/models/views/_loads.sql). The same mechanism allows to chain transformations for every load_id.

dbt is a popular way of defining transformations and dlt implements an extremely easy to use runner (see #28 ) that executes any dbt package in isolated python environment. it also manages the dbt profiles and credentials so the same pipeline definition can be used both for loading and transforming.

we want to make this even easier by generating initial package that will contain all the models and support the chaining mechanism. the user just needs to add transformations for their tables. Here is an example of a dbt package that was started from such template: https://github.com/dlt-hub/rasa_semantic_schema

Requirements

    • You also need to create the dbt template package above
    • null and unique tests should included
    • should work with bigquery redshift postgres duckdb (in fact the materializations for _dlt_loads table are so simple that they should work everywhere)

Implementation
Let's start from standalone script that generates dbt package from Pipeline instance passed. The instance will contain all relevant schemas with table definitions.

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