Coordinate with `dbt-fusion` for `{{ graph }}` usage like `{{ model.meta }}`

[dbeatty10]

@b-per could you help us coordinate with https://github.com/dbt-labs/fs/issues/3133?

Sorry for such a simple initial issue -- going fast 😬

At a minimum, we want autofix to report that users need to take a manual action.

[jtcohen6]

Scope of this: If users have code in their project that accesses {{ graph }} attributes which were previously both top-level key and nested under config, now they need to access it nested under config.

e.g.

• {{ model.config.meta }} instead of {{ model.meta }}
• {{ model.columns['column_a'].config.meta }} instead of {{ model.columns['column_a'].meta }}

[b-per]

I can check what I can do about it next week, but dbt-autofix has no Jinja "understanding" so it will need to be regex based.

Is there a public doc that we can point people to for this change?

[jtcohen6]

@b-per Issue for documentation:

• Attributes moving / exclusively available within config for Fusion docs.getdbt.com#7432

[b-per]

For people following this one. This is WIP but might be quite messy.

The assumptions that I am using are:

• we want to update SQL files only (not YAML)
• the tool will use regex to replace
  • .meta when not prefixed by .config or ['config'] or ["config"] to .config.meta
  • ['meta']/["meta"] when not prefixed by .config or ['config'] or ["config"] to ['config']['meta']
• we want to do so only when in a Jinja block (we don't want to replace mytable.meta by mytable.meta.config
• there is no way to easily know with the tool if .meta refers to a graph object/node or not, the tool is not "dbt-aware"

Let me know if you agree/disagree with the above

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I might try to run it on some packages that use meta to see if my implementation works quite OK.

Being regex based, I just want to highlight that there is a high probability that

• this might update code that shouldn't have been updated
• this might miss some replacement

[b-per]

@jtcohen6 , just checking if we should close this because of this issue