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Fully qualified names are globally unique, case-sensitive resource identifiers
that you can use with Dataplex Universal Catalog to refer to Google Cloud
and non-Google Cloud resources.
For example, fully qualified names are used for systems that support the
automatic ingestion
of metadata from Google Cloud. If you
catalog your non-Google Cloud resources
in Dataplex Universal Catalog, you can provide fully qualified names when you
create the custom entries that represent those third-party resources.
Fully qualified names are composed of a prefix followed by
segments delimited with dots. The maximum length is 4,000 characters.
Surround segments that contain reserved characters, such as colons, dots,
and whitespace, with backticks. Use double backticks to specify a
backtick within a segment.
Predefined formats for Google Cloud resources
The following tables list the predefined formats for fully qualified names that
are supported for Google Cloud resources.
You can create a custom fully qualified name format by using the custom:
prefix. Custom formats are not validated, and might not be compatible with
Dataplex Universal Catalog features. To ease future migration,
create custom formats that are similar to predefined formats.
Resources that are referenced in OpenLineage messages with the namespace custom are
interpreted as custom fully qualified names.
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