Exposure option YML data

[dweaver33]

When using the exposures option, some of the data is missing or lacks a way to control content.

As you can see in the example file below, I have the following issues:

1. Email is missing
2. Unable to change the following fields:

• Type
• Maturity
• Description

Example exposure file:

version: 2
exposures:
- name: Number of Customers per Day [chart]
  type: analysis
  maturity: low
  url: https://*********.app.preset.io/superset/explore/?form_data=********
  description: ''
  depends_on:
  - ref('ref_contacts')
  owner:
    name: Dustin Weaver
    email: unknown
- name: Customer Dashboard [dashboard]
  type: dashboard
  maturity: low
  url: https://**********.app.preset.io/superset/dashboard/9/
  description: ''
  depends_on:
  - ref('ref_contacts')
  owner:
    name: Dustin Weaver
    email: unknown

[betodealmeida]

Hi, Dustin!

How do you see this working? Adding the email is doable but not straightforward, since requires changing the existing APIs in Superset to return the information, or doing additional API calls. But I'm not sure how to change type/maturity/description.

Right now charts are mapped to analysis, and dashboards to dashboard. If a dashboard is published the maturity is exported as high; same if a chart is certified. If we want to allow the user to override that behavior the only way I can see is by having them add metadata to the "extra" field, something like:

dbt:
    type: XXX
    description: YYY
    maturity: high

We could also do that for email as a workaround.

For description we could potentially add the field to dashboards and charts, and use that, but it would require some design work.

[dweaver33]

Ah, ok, I didn't know that's how the maturity field worked. That makes sense.

As for the email and description, I think these would be super useful for someone browsing the dbt docs site.