Hi we have a mono-repo style code base with different packages working as differnt asset + Repositories ( we are still using repositories ) One of our assets is in package

workflows.inventories.assets

and it is managed within its own definitions and materialization flows. But this asset is a re-usable asset and would like to pass in as input to many other downstream assets in different packages/modules. How do I enable sharing of such assets. if I have

inventories

asset in one package, if it were in same code file, the consumer of inventories would just use it by calling

def inventory_consumer(inventories):
  pass

but because inventories is in different package, I am currently getting error

Input asset '["inventories"]' for asset '["consolidated_sales"]' is not produced by any of the provided asset ops and is not one of the provided sources

What are my options ?

Check the documentation for `SourceAssets`: https://docs.dagster.io/concepts/assets/software-defined-assets#assets-with-dependencies

Is there a utility method that just converts an asset to source asset, similar to utility methods like

load_assets_from_package_module

something like

load_as_source_asset

explicitly defining a

SourceAsset

breaks my cohesiveness to the actual asset, leaving it for string manipulation values, that make it more fragile and breakage prone

You should be able to use

<http://AssetsDefinition.to|AssetsDefinition.to>_source_asset()

https://docs.dagster.io/_apidocs/assets#dagster.AssetsDefinition.to_source_asset

Ah ! Thank you