public sealed class EntityReference : IMessage<EntityReference>, IEquatable<EntityReference>, IDeepCloneable<EntityReference>, IBufferMessage, IMessage
Reference documentation and code samples for the Data Lineage v1 API class EntityReference.
The soft reference to everything you can attach a lineage event to.
Required. Fully Qualified Name of the entity. Useful for referencing
entities that aren't represented as GCP resources, for example, tables in
Dataproc Metastore API.
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