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Data Source

Updated on 2023-08-11 GMT+08:00

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Data Source

A data source can be considered as a special resource and is declared using the keyword data. A data source is used to query the attributes and information of existing resources. For example, you can query the image ID and other attributes based on the image name of .

After an image is found, other resources can reference the attributes of the image to use it. The reference format is data.<Data type>.<Name>.<Attribute>.

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