Extending Great Expectations

It is possible to extend behavior in great expectations in several ways, described below.

Additional backends

Expectations require backend implementations to translate the semantically-meaningful expectation to the actual metrics and compute tasks required to evaluate it.

Inheriting Documentation

Expectations should maintain the same API and behavior independently of the backend that implements them. When implementing an expectation defined in the base Dataset for a new backend, we recommend that you add the @DocInherit decorator first to use the default dataset documentation for the expectation. That can help users of your dataset see consistent documentation no matter which backend is implementing the great_expectations API.

@DocInherit overrides your function’s __get__ method with one that will replace the local docstring with the docstring from its parent. It is defined in Dataset.util.

last updated: Aug 13, 2020