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18 changes: 9 additions & 9 deletions docs/docs-beta/docs/guides/data-modeling/asset-factories.md
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Often times in data engineering, you'll find yourself needing to create a large number of similar assets. For example, you might have a set of tables in a database that all have the same schema, or a set of files in a directory that all have the same format. In these cases, it can be helpful to create a factory that generates these assets for you.

Additionally, you might be serving stakeholders who are not familiar with Python or Dagster, and would prefer to interact with your assets using a domain-specific language (DSL) built on top of a configuration language such as YAML.
Additionally, you might be serving stakeholders who aren't familiar with Python or Dagster, and would prefer to interact with your assets using a domain-specific language (DSL) built on top of a configuration language such as YAML.

You can solve both of these problems using the **asset factory pattern**. In this guide, we'll show you how to build a simple asset factory in Python, and then how to build a DSL on top of it.
You can solve both of these problems using the **asset factory pattern**. In this guide, we'll show you how to build an asset factory in Python, and then how to build a DSL on top of it.

## What you'll learn

- Building a simple asset factory in Python
- Building an asset factory in Python
- Driving your asset factory with YAML
- Improving usability with Pydantic and Jinja

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## Building a simple asset factory in Python
## Building an asset factory in Python

Let's imagine a team that has to perform the same repetitive ETL task often: they download a CSV file from S3, run a basic SQL query on it, and then upload the result as a new file back to S3.

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pip install dagster dagster-aws duckdb
```

Next, here's how you might define a simple asset factory in Python to automate this ETL process:
Next, here's how you might define an asset factory in Python to automate this ETL process:

<CodeExample filePath="guides/data-modeling/asset-factories/python-asset-factory.py" language="python" title="Basic Python asset factory" />

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<CodeExample filePath="guides/data-modeling/asset-factories/etl_jobs.yaml" language="yaml" title="Example YAML config" />

Implementing this is straightforward if we build on the previous example. First, let's install PyYAML:
This can be implemented by building on the previous example. First, let's install PyYAML:

```shell
pip install pyyaml
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## Improving usability with Pydantic and Jinja

There are two problems with the simple approach described above:
There are two problems with the preceding approach:

1. The YAML file is not type-checked, so it's easy to make mistakes that will cause cryptic `KeyError`s.
1. The YAML file isn't type-checked, so it's easy to make mistakes that will cause cryptic `KeyError`s.
2. The YAML file contains secrets right in the file. Instead, it should reference environment variables.

To solve these problems, we can use Pydantic to define a schema for the YAML file, and Jinja to template the YAML file with environment variables.

Here's what the new YAML file might look like. Note how we are using Jinja templating to reference environment variables:
Here's what the new YAML file might look like. Note how we're using Jinja templating to reference environment variables:
<CodeExample filePath="guides/data-modeling/asset-factories/etl_jobs_with_jinja.yaml" language="yaml" title="Example YAML config with Jinja" />

And here is the Python implementation:
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We have
we have

DSL
Pydantic
AWS
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You can test that all code loads into Python correctly with:

```
pip install -e .
pytest
pip install tox-uv
tox
```

You may include additional test files in `docs_beta_snippets_tests`
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source_object: str,
target_object: str,
sql: str,
) -> dg.Definitions: ...
) -> dg.Definitions:
# Code from previous example omitted
return dg.Definitions()


# highlight-start
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target_object: str,
sql: str,
) -> dg.Definitions:
@dg.asset(name=f"etl_{bucket}_{target_object}")
# asset keys cannot contain '.'
asset_key = f"etl_{bucket}_{target_object}".replace(".", "_")

@dg.asset(name=asset_key)
def etl_asset(context):
with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as root:
source_path = f"{root}/{source_object}"
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source_object: str,
target_object: str,
sql: str,
) -> dg.Definitions: ...
) -> dg.Definitions:
# Code from previous example omitted
return dg.Definitions()


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snippets_folder = file_relative_path(__file__, "../docs_beta_snippets/")

EXCLUDED_FILES = {
# see DOC-375
f"{snippets_folder}/guides/data-modeling/asset-factories/python-asset-factory.py",
f"{snippets_folder}/guides/data-modeling/asset-factories/simple-yaml-asset-factory.py",
f"{snippets_folder}/guides/data-modeling/asset-factories/advanced-yaml-asset-factory.py",
}


def get_python_files(directory):
for root, _, files in os.walk(directory):
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@pytest.mark.parametrize("file_path", get_python_files(snippets_folder))
def test_file_loads(file_path):
if file_path in EXCLUDED_FILES:
pytest.skip(f"Skipped {file_path}")
return
spec = importlib.util.spec_from_file_location("module", file_path)
assert spec is not None and spec.loader is not None
module = importlib.util.module_from_spec(spec)
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