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Entity

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Entity - AWS Glue
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An entity supported by a given ConnectionType.

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Category

The type of entities that are present in the response. This value depends on the source connection. For example this is SObjects for Salesforce and databases or schemas or tables for sources like Amazon Redshift.

Type: String

Required: No

CustomProperties

An optional map of keys which may be returned for an entity by a connector.

Type: String to string map

Required: No

Description

A description of the entity.

Type: String

Required: No

EntityName

The name of the entity.

Type: String

Required: No

IsParentEntity

A Boolean value which helps to determine whether there are sub objects that can be listed.

Type: Boolean

Required: No

Label

Label used for the entity.

Type: String

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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