Data object properties

The object properties are used in different Data Lake features to filter out a set of data objects to apply an action to.

Commonly used object properties in Data Lake are the Object ID, Object Name, and the Stored Date timestamp. For example:

In Purge, you specify a date range based on the Stored Date and provide Object Names, and you can optionally provide the Logical ID.
In Compass you can query and request to show additional properties in the response. For example, the dataObjectID and lastModified columns which relate to the Object ID and Stored Date object properties
In the Data Lake /dataobjects API, you can use the object properties to filter the API response. You can retrieve a specific set of data objects using the/byfilter Filter API.

This table shows the object properties that are available for data objects in Data Lake:


Property Name	Description	Data Type
Object ID	Unique identifier for the raw data object.	String
Index Date	Date and time when the object became visible in Data Lake after it was stored.	Date & Time
Stored On	Date and time when the object was physically stored in Data Lake.	Date & Time
Object Type	The data format of the data object name as defined in Data Catalog.	String
Compressed Size	Compressed size of the raw data object.	Number
Uncompressed Size	The uncompressed size of the raw data object. Value is 0 if the data object was sent compressed.	Number
Encoding	Type of character encoding for the stored data in the raw object.	String
Source Event Date	Date and time when a messaging or delivery interface marked delivery of a data object.	Date & Time
Compression Type	Compression type that is applied on the stored object. Currently it’s always DEFLATED.	String
Corrupt	Boolean property indicating if the data object is prevented from further processing. The property value can be changed with marking the data object as corrupt. When set to true: /dataobjects/byfilter API does not retrieve the object by default. This can be overridden. Compass does not query the data in the data object.	Boolean
Logical ID	The logical ID of the application that provided the data.	String
Message ID	The unique message identifier as set by the provider of the data.	String
Object Name	The associative identity of a data object as defined and referenced within Data Catalog.	String
Instances	The number of instances within the raw data object. For example, the number of records that are stored in a Newline-delimited JSON or DSV object.	Number
Document ID	The Document ID of the (business) object, in case the data object contains a single business object or record.	String
Accounting Entity	The accounting entity of the data, in case the data belongs to an accounting entity.	String
Location	The location of the data, if applicable, in case the data belongs to a location.	String
Source	The source of the data, for example the file name where the data object came from.	String
Revision ID	The revision ID of the data, in case the data object contains a single business object or record and has a revision ID.	String
Variation ID	The variation ID of the data, in case the data object contains a single business object or record and has a variation ID.	Long
Batch ID	If the data object belongs to a batch of multiple data objects, this is the ID of the batch.	String
Batch Sequence	If the data object belongs to a batch of multiple data objects, this is the sequence number of the data object in the batch.	Long
Batch Size	If the data object belongs to a batch of multiple data objects, this is the total number of data objects in the batch.	Long
Batch Revision	If the data object belongs to a batch of multiple data objects, and a new revision of the batch was sent, this is the revision ID of the batch.	Long
Batch Abort Indicator	If the data object belongs to a batch of multiple data objects, this indicates whether the batch was canceled before it was completed.	Boolean
Custom Keys	A list of custom property names, if applicable. The keys order matches the order for the values in Custom Properties.	Array of string values
Custom Properties	The list of values for the customer properties as listed in the Custom Keys. The value order matches the order for the keys in Custom Keys.	Array of string values
Source Publication Date	Date and time representing when the data object was published by a source application.	Date & Time