Data Feed Structure Changes

2 min

changes to the content you receive can be released in one of two ways dynamic change these will be an addition of a column to an existing feed file or an entirely new feed file column additions will always be added to the end of a file (i e , if a file currently has 6 columns, the additional column would be the 7th in the file) to avoid breaking your ingestion processes, it is strongly recommended to write your load script in such a way that it accommodates both these types of additions versioned change these will be the removal of a column from an existing feed file, the removal of a feed file entirely, or a change in the data type of a column in an existing feed file such changes will always be provided in a completely new feed denoted by an increment in the version number in the feed’s file path when a new version of a feed is made available, you will have a defined period to upgrade during this period, both the new and previous versions of the feed will be available