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CustomEntityType

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CustomEntityType - AWS Glue

An object representing a custom pattern for detecting sensitive data across the columns and rows of your structured data.

Contents

Name

A name for the custom pattern that allows it to be retrieved or deleted later. This name must be unique per AWS account.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 255.

Pattern: [\u0020-\uD7FF\uE000-\uFFFD\uD800\uDC00-\uDBFF\uDFFF\t]*

Required: Yes

RegexString

A regular expression string that is used for detecting sensitive data in a custom pattern.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 255.

Pattern: [\u0020-\uD7FF\uE000-\uFFFD\uD800\uDC00-\uDBFF\uDFFF\t]*

Required: Yes

ContextWords

A list of context words. If none of these context words are found within the vicinity of the regular expression the data will not be detected as sensitive data.

If no context words are passed only a regular expression is checked.

Type: Array of strings

Array Members: Minimum number of 1 item. Maximum number of 20 items.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 255.

Pattern: [\u0020-\uD7FF\uE000-\uFFFD\uD800\uDC00-\uDBFF\uDFFF\t]*

Required: No

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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