Hi all! What would be the best way to get an asset's latest materialization within that same asset? The idea here is to compare the previous materialization with the current one to log any changes

This might be what you're looking for: https://github.com/dagster-io/dagster/discussions/14338

@sandy thanks for the reply. Indeed this seems like what i want but the example only shows how to get the metadata, any idea how I could get the actual value?

Ah, this is probably the best way to do that: https://docs.dagster.io/concepts/assets/software-defined-assets#loading-asset-values-outside-of-dagster-runs

thanks but this caused a circler reference; i ended up just using the metadata

ah yes - if your Definitions object is in a different module than your asset, you'd need to import your Definitions object within the body of the function, rather than at module-level

Hi @sandy could you please elaborate on that? There is an asset that materializes on a schedule. In the run of that asset, is it possible to get the previous materialization of the asset, not just the metadata?

Here's a Github discussion with more detail: https://github.com/dagster-io/dagster/discussions/14805