bollhav 1.5.3

Standardizing models

bollhav

Model definition framework for data pipeline targets.

Implementations

Postgres
Parquet

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Installation

pip install bollhav

Model

from bollhav import Model, ModelType, WriteMode, Database, PostgresColumn, PostgresType

model = Model(
    name="orders",
    source_entity="raw.orders",
    table="orders",
    schema="public",
    database=Database.POSTGRES,
    columns=[
        PostgresColumn(name="id", data_type=PostgresType.BIGINT, primary_key=True, nullable=False),
        PostgresColumn(name="created_at", data_type=PostgresType.TIMESTAMPTZ, nullable=False),
        PostgresColumn(name="email", data_type=PostgresType.TEXT, nullable=True, sensitive=True),
    ],
    write_mode=WriteMode.APPEND,
    cron="0 3 * * *",
    partitioned_by="created_at",
)

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
name	str	required	Unique identifier for the model
source_entity	str	required	Source table or view to read from
table	str	""	Destination table name
schema	str	""	Destination schema name
database	Database	None	Target database. Required if columns is set
columns	list[PostgresColumn | ParquetColumn]	None	Column definitions. Required if database is set
model_type	ModelType	TABLE	TABLE or VIEW
write_mode	WriteMode	APPEND	How to write data. VIEW requires ModelType.VIEW
tags	list[str]	None	Labels for filtering
cron	str	None	Cron expression. Automatically infers batch_size
enabled	bool	True	Whether the model is active
debug	bool	False	Enables debug mode
description	str	None	Human-readable description
source_dsn	str	None	DSN for the source connection
source_query	str	None	Optional query to use instead of source_entity
partitioned_by	str	None	Column name to partition by. Must exist in columns
begin	datetime	None	Backfill start — must be UTC-aware
end	datetime	None	Backfill end — must be UTC-aware
retries	int	None	Retry count on failure
lookback	int	None	Lookback window in batch units
tz_aware	bool	True	Enforces UTC on begin/end
**kwargs			Extra metadata. Callable values are resolved with non-callable kwargs as arguments

Computed attributes

Attribute	Description
batch_size	Inferred from cron if set, otherwise None
sensitive	True if any column has sensitive=True
unique_columns	Columns with unique=True — required for UPDATE_INSERT
partitioned_by_index	True if partitioned_by is set

Databases

from bollhav import Database

Database.POSTGRES
Database.PARQUET

Write modes

Read more here

from bollhav import WriteMode

WriteMode.APPEND
WriteMode.OVERWRITE_INSERT  # requires partitioned_by
WriteMode.TRUNCATE_INSERT
WriteMode.UPDATE_INSERT     # requires at least one column with unique=True
WriteMode.VIEW              # requires ModelType.VIEW

UTC enforcement

When tz_aware=True (default), begin and end must be UTC-aware. Naive or non-UTC datetimes raise ValueError.

from datetime import datetime, timezone

model = Model(
    ...,
    begin=datetime(2025, 1, 1, tzinfo=timezone.utc),
    end=datetime(2025, 2, 1, tzinfo=timezone.utc),
)

Extra kwargs

Non-reserved keyword arguments are stored in model.extra. Callable values are resolved at init time using the non-callable kwargs as arguments.

model = Model(
    name="orders",
    source_entity="raw.orders",
    static="production",
    env=lambda static: f"env={static}",
)

model.extra  # {"static": "production", "env": "env=production"}