Export: DCS

Exports the data contract to the DCS (Data Contract Specification) format, for downstream tools that still expect it. For the other direction, see Migrate from DCS to ODCS.

datacontract export dcs orders.odcs.yaml --output datacontract.yaml

Running this against the example orders contract produces (excerpt):

id: urn:datacontract:checkout:orders
info:
  title: Orders
  version: 1.0.0
  status: active
  description: Tracks customer orders and their line items for analytics and reporting.
servers:
  production:
    type: snowflake
    account: my-account
    database: ANALYTICS
    schema: ORDERS
  bigquery:
    type: bigquery
    project: my-gcp-project
    dataset: orders
terms:
  usage: Used by the analytics team to build revenue dashboards and by finance for
    reconciliation.
  limitations: Not suitable for real-time fraud detection; data is loaded in hourly
    batches.
  description: Tracks customer orders and their line items for analytics and reporting.
models:
  orders:
    description: One row per customer order.
    type: table
    fields:
      order_id:
        type: string
        required: true
        primaryKey: true
        unique: true
        description: Unique identifier of the order.
      order_timestamp:
# …

All options: datacontract export dcs.