Connect Loader SDK

Alteryx Connect helps you explore your company's data by providing important metadata information, such as the author or location, or social information, such as use frequency or related data.

Connect uses loaders to load data, regardless of location or format. A number of loaders are available for more-widely used servers and database systems; however, the Connect Loader SDK allows you to create new custom loaders for existing databases, as well as creating and integrating custom metadata and object types into Alteryx Connect.

New loaders for existing object types are full supported, including migration to future versions. This includes database structures. Loaders for new object types, such as data models, are not full supported. Migration to future versions of Connect may not be supported.

Connect SDK overview

The following details the path that data takes when loaded into Connect.

Harvest: Metadata is retrieved from an external system and the REST API is called. This can be done with:

Store: The REST API stores metadata in prepared data structures within the internal database.

Create & Index: The database calls a "loading job" based on the configuration files, which creates the UI based on the data and indexes metadata.

Access: Using the Connect platform UI, clients are empowered to search, browse, and annotate their data.