Hierarchical Schema Inspection
Switching between business, logical, and physical views never mutates the underlying schema. Every view selection writes SchemaViewRendered, so a reviewer can see exactly which abstraction a stakeholder was looking at when they made a decision.
Magellan lets users inspect schemas at multiple levels of abstraction — business, logical, and physical — matching each stakeholder's perspective.
Business users see meaningful names, descriptions, and classifications. Logical modellers see entity structures and relationships. Engineers see columns, data types, and constraints.
The hierarchical tree view supports deep nesting, making it practical to explore complex XML schemas, JSON documents, and deeply normalized relational models.
Annotations, tags, and governance metadata are visible at every level, ensuring that context is never lost when drilling into detail.
Every inspection writes a `SchemaViewRendered` entry recording the schema ULID, the abstraction level, the actor, and the moment the view was rendered — so an auditor can reproduce exactly what a stakeholder saw before they signed off on a release.
Audit ledger entries written by this feature
Each action in this feature appends one of the following entry types to the ULID‑keyed, SHA‑256 hash‑chained audit ledger. A reviewer can replay the chain to reconstruct exactly what happened, when, and under which role.
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