DOCSP-12588 Removing String as Default Partition Attribute Type (#89)

* DOCSP-12588 Removing String as Default Partition Attribute Type

DOCSP-12588 minor update

* DOCSP-12588 updates for copy review feedback

Author: kanchana-mongodb

source/includes/fact-path-delimiter.rst

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 When specifying the 
 :datalakeconf:`~databases.[n].collections.[n].dataSources.[n].path`:
-   
+
+- Specify the data type for the partition attribute.
 - Ensure that the partition attribute type matches the data type to parse.
 - Use the delimiter specified in :datalakeconf:`~stores.[n].delimiter`.

source/reference/examples/path-syntax-examples.txt

@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ exist in ``1234.json``, {+dl+} adds the ``age`` field and value to
 .. _supported-parsing-funcs:
 
 Supported Parsing Functions 
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+---------------------------
 
 .. list-table:: 
    :widths: 30 70 
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ Supported Parsing Functions
 .. _parse-null-values:
 
 Parsing Null Values from Filenames 
-``````````````````````````````````
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 {+dl+} automatically parses an empty string (``""``) in the place of an
 attribute in the file path as the BSON null value for all the {+adl+} attribute 
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ conflicting type to documents read from |s3|.
 .. _parse-padded-numeric-values:
 
 Parsing Padded Numbers from Filenames 
-`````````````````````````````````````
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 File path can include numeric values that are padded with leading zeros. For 
 {+dl+} to correctly parse padded numeric values for attribute types like 
@@ -204,28 +204,6 @@ the value using regular expressions.
 
       /users/{user_id int:\\d{3}}
 
-Default Partition Attribute Type 
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-The partition attributes in the 
-:datalakeconf:`~databases.[n].collections.[n].dataSources.[n].path` defaults to 
-string if you don't set a different data type. 
-
-.. example:: 
-
-   Suppose a path similar to the following:
-
-   .. code-block:: none 
-      :copyable: false 
-
-      /employees/{startDate}
-
-   ``startDate`` is interpreted as a string. 
-
-.. seealso:: 
-
-   :ref:`datalake-path-attribute-types`
-
 .. _datalake-path-syntax-egs:
 
 Examples 

source/supported-unsupported/supported-partition-attributes.txt

@@ -33,18 +33,12 @@ example for each data type:
      - Example
 
    * - ``string``
-     - Parses the filename as a string. This is the default data type. 
-       If a data type is not specified for a partition attribute, 
-       {+data-lake-short+} interprets the partition attribute as a string.
+     - Parses the filename as a string. 
      - filename: ``/employees/949-555-0195.json``
 
        path: ``/employees/{phone string}``
 
-       OR
-
-       path: ``employees/{phone}``
-
-       In the preceding ``path`` examples, {+dl+} interprets ``phone``  as a string.
+       In the preceding example, {+dl+} interprets ``phone``  as a string.
 
        .. seealso::