How do I manually materialize an asset which is not included in the job selection? I'd like to sometimes "reset" an asset and have a special job for doing that. Currently it just writes data at the asset's location (the path is hardcoded). I'd like to materialize it properly (getting all the logged metadata, using the correct IOManager, etc). I assume I would have to use

get_output_context

or

build_output_context

and pass it to the

IOManager.handle_output

along with my object, right?

hi @Daniel Gafni are you trying to materialize the asset from a script or some other non-UI way?

From a job which I occasionally launch from Dagit

ahhh i see. one thing you could do is yield an AssetMaterialization event from the job that modifies the asset to indicate to dagster that the asset has been changed. Let me think on some other options. maybe @sandy might have some ideas too?

I’d like to automatically include the correct metadata too. Like the IOManager would do. I would have to calculate it manually in this case.