Actions

An action is a way to take an arbitrary method and make it configurable and runnable within a data context.

The only requirement from an action is for it to have a take_action method.

SlackNotificationAction

SlackNotificationAction is a validation action that sends a Slack notification to a given webhook

Configuration

- name: send_slack_notification_on_validation_result
action:
  class_name: SlackNotificationAction
  # put the actual webhook URL in the uncommitted/config_variables.yml file
  slack_webhook: ${validation_notification_slack_webhook}
  notify_on: all # possible values: "all", "failure", "success"

  renderer:
    module_name: great_expectations.render.renderer.slack_renderer
    class_name: SlackRenderer

StoreValidationResultAction

StoreValidationResultAction is a namespace-aware validation action that stores a validation result in the store.

Configuration

- name: store_validation_result
action:
  class_name: StoreValidationResultAction
  # name of the store where the actions will store validation results
  # the name must refer to a store that is configured in the great_expectations.yml file
  target_store_name: validations_store

StoreEvaluationParametersAction

StoreEvaluationParametersAction is a namespace-aware validation action that extracts evaluation parameters from a validation result and stores them in the store configured for this action.

Evaluation parameters allow expectations to refer to statistics/metrics computed in the process of validating other prior expectations.

Configuration

- name: store_evaluation_params
action:
  class_name: StoreEvaluationParametersAction
  # name of the store where the action will store the parameters
  # the name must refer to a store that is configured in the great_expectations.yml file
  target_store_name: evaluation_parameter_store

UpdateDataDocsAction

UpdateDataDocsAction is a validation action that notifies the site builders of all the data docs sites of the data context that a validation result should be added to the data docs.

Configuration

- name: update_data_docs
action:
  class_name: UpdateDataDocsAction
  # this action has no additional configuration properties

Dependencies

When configured inside action_list of an operator, StoreValidationResultAction action has to be configured before this action, since the building of data docs fetches validation results from the store.

last updated: Aug 13, 2020