Hi,

The term is always 1 level and category is nested. so when you make
getGlossary API call you will get all the terms and first level of a
category with respect to the glossary.

In order to create tree when user click on the category, we make get
category API
https://github.com/apache/atlas/blob/master/dashboardv3/public/js/views/glossary/GlossaryLayoutView.js#L232


On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 2:50 AM Frank Lu <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks, Kaval.
>
> Yes, indeed the classification way most likely will not work.
>
> I am going along with glossary/term approach.
>
> Additional question on how the glossary/category tree is built in the UI.
> As I looked over the glossary REST API call, all categories returned as an
> array no matter what level in the hierarchy. It seems atlas UI build tree
> while read from array? or any API I missed can help to build such tree?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Frank
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 10:45 PM Keval Bhatt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Short answer There is no way which will give you all the attributes
>> key-value in one API call.
>>
>> I think classification is not the correct way for your use case and how
>> you are using level2 classification as the value of level1 classification?
>>
>> Can you share the screenshot?
>>
>> I think what you can do to solve this problem.
>>
>> Create the hierarchy using glossary and term then you can search for the
>> entities which have associated terms and from that entity instance, you can
>> get the custom key-value. (user-defined property) or the classification key
>> value.
>>
>> Same for classification if you want to get all the attributes value then
>> you need to traverse all the entities and get what all information you want
>> and store it in your obj.
>>
>> One more thing you can do if you know the last classification
>> (sub-classification) then you will get all the parent attributes in it
>> because of propagation.
>>
>> I might be wrong but as per my understanding, I have provided the
>> solution.
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 3, 2021, 09:35 Frank Lu <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello, experts,
>>>
>>> We are facing an issue that needs to organize our term in a hierarchical
>>> way. Understood that we can organize them in glossary/category/term, but
>>> our requirement asks for each level can be assigned to an entity, in
>>> addition, we also need to include key-value pairs for each term.
>>>
>>> I try to use multiple level classification to mimic the Glossary
>>> hierarchy. However, is there a way to get a list of key-values? Use an
>>> example, say we have level1 classification, its attribute level1_name has
>>> 10 different values, for each level1_name value, we can have a level2
>>> classification, level2_name also might have 10 different values, and each
>>> may correspond to a level3 classification. As of now, I don't see any way
>>> to get all possible values for level1_name. Please advise.
>>>
>>> Not sure my solution to this problem is on the right track, or we have
>>> better way to solve this?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> *Frank*
>>>
>>>>
>>>>

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