diff --git a/tableauserverclient/models/datasource_item.py b/tableauserverclient/models/datasource_item.py
index 78c2a44ca..5b23341d0 100644
--- a/tableauserverclient/models/datasource_item.py
+++ b/tableauserverclient/models/datasource_item.py
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ def __init__(self, project_id, name=None):
         self._content_url = None
         self._created_at = None
         self._datasource_type = None
+        self._description = None
         self._encrypt_extracts = None
         self._has_extracts = None
         self._id = None
@@ -131,6 +132,14 @@ def project_name(self):
     def datasource_type(self):
         return self._datasource_type
 
+    @property
+    def description(self):
+        return self._description
+
+    @description.setter
+    def description(self, value):
+        self._description = value
+
     @property
     def updated_at(self):
         return self._updated_at
@@ -314,6 +323,15 @@ def from_response(cls, resp, ns):
 
     @staticmethod
     def _parse_element(datasource_xml, ns):
+        id_ = datasource_xml.get('id', None)
+        name = datasource_xml.get('name', None)
+        datasource_type = datasource_xml.get('type', None)
+        description = datasource_xml.get('description', None)
+        content_url = datasource_xml.get('contentUrl', None)
+        created_at = parse_datetime(datasource_xml.get('createdAt', None))
+        updated_at = parse_datetime(datasource_xml.get('updatedAt', None))
+        certification_note = datasource_xml.get('certificationNote', None)
+        certified = str(datasource_xml.get('isCertified', None)).lower() == 'true'
         certification_note = datasource_xml.get("certificationNote", None)
         certified = str(datasource_xml.get("isCertified", None)).lower() == "true"
         content_url = datasource_xml.get("contentUrl", None)
diff --git a/test/assets/datasource_get.xml b/test/assets/datasource_get.xml
index 5858d318d..951409caa 100644
--- a/test/assets/datasource_get.xml
+++ b/test/assets/datasource_get.xml
@@ -2,12 +2,12 @@
 <tsResponse xmlns="http://tableau.com/api" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://tableau.com/api http://tableau.com/api/ts-api-2.3.xsd">
     <pagination pageNumber="1" pageSize="100" totalAvailable="2" />
     <datasources>
-        <datasource id="e76a1461-3b1d-4588-bf1b-17551a879ad9" name="SampleDS" contentUrl="SampleDS" type="dataengine" createdAt="2016-08-11T21:22:40Z" updatedAt="2016-08-11T21:34:17Z" encryptExtracts="false" hasExtracts="true" useRemoteQueryAgent="false" webpageUrl="https://web.com">
+        <datasource id="e76a1461-3b1d-4588-bf1b-17551a879ad9" name="SampleDS" contentUrl="SampleDS" description="SampleDsDescription" type="dataengine" createdAt="2016-08-11T21:22:40Z" updatedAt="2016-08-11T21:34:17Z" encryptExtracts="false" hasExtracts="true" useRemoteQueryAgent="false" webpageUrl="https://web.com">
             <project id="ee8c6e70-43b6-11e6-af4f-f7b0d8e20760" name="default" />
             <owner id="5de011f8-5aa9-4d5b-b991-f462c8dd6bb7" />
             <tags />
         </datasource>
-        <datasource id="9dbd2263-16b5-46e1-9c43-a76bb8ab65fb" name="Sample datasource" contentUrl="Sampledatasource" type="dataengine" createdAt="2016-08-04T21:31:55Z" updatedAt="2016-08-04T21:31:55Z" encryptExtracts="true" hasExtracts="false" useRemoteQueryAgent="true" webpageUrl="https://page.com">
+        <datasource id="9dbd2263-16b5-46e1-9c43-a76bb8ab65fb" name="Sample datasource" description="description Sample" contentUrl="Sampledatasource" type="dataengine" createdAt="2016-08-04T21:31:55Z" updatedAt="2016-08-04T21:31:55Z" encryptExtracts="true" hasExtracts="false" useRemoteQueryAgent="true" webpageUrl="https://page.com">
             <project id="ee8c6e70-43b6-11e6-af4f-f7b0d8e20760" name="default" />
             <owner id="5de011f8-5aa9-4d5b-b991-f462c8dd6bb7" />
             <tags>
diff --git a/test/assets/datasource_get_by_id.xml b/test/assets/datasource_get_by_id.xml
index d5dcf89ee..53434b8cc 100644
--- a/test/assets/datasource_get_by_id.xml
+++ b/test/assets/datasource_get_by_id.xml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
 <tsResponse xmlns="http://tableau.com/api" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://tableau.com/api http://tableau.com/api/ts-api-2.3.xsd">
-    <datasource id="9dbd2263-16b5-46e1-9c43-a76bb8ab65fb" name="Sample datasource" contentUrl="Sampledatasource" type="dataengine" createdAt="2016-08-04T21:31:55Z" updatedAt="2016-08-04T21:31:55Z" description="test-ds">
+    <datasource id="9dbd2263-16b5-46e1-9c43-a76bb8ab65fb" name="Sample datasource" contentUrl="Sampledatasource" type="dataengine" createdAt="2016-08-04T21:31:55Z" updatedAt="2016-08-04T21:31:55Z" description="abc description xyz">
         <project id="ee8c6e70-43b6-11e6-af4f-f7b0d8e20760" name="default" />
         <owner id="5de011f8-5aa9-4d5b-b991-f462c8dd6bb7" />
         <tags>
diff --git a/test/test_datasource.py b/test/test_datasource.py
index 4c65e8dc9..52a5eabe3 100644
--- a/test/test_datasource.py
+++ b/test/test_datasource.py
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ def test_get(self):
         self.assertEqual(2, pagination_item.total_available)
         self.assertEqual('e76a1461-3b1d-4588-bf1b-17551a879ad9', all_datasources[0].id)
         self.assertEqual('dataengine', all_datasources[0].datasource_type)
+        self.assertEqual('SampleDsDescription', all_datasources[0].description)
         self.assertEqual('SampleDS', all_datasources[0].content_url)
         self.assertEqual('2016-08-11T21:22:40Z', format_datetime(all_datasources[0].created_at))
         self.assertEqual('2016-08-11T21:34:17Z', format_datetime(all_datasources[0].updated_at))
@@ -60,6 +61,7 @@ def test_get(self):
 
         self.assertEqual('9dbd2263-16b5-46e1-9c43-a76bb8ab65fb', all_datasources[1].id)
         self.assertEqual('dataengine', all_datasources[1].datasource_type)
+        self.assertEqual('description Sample', all_datasources[1].description)
         self.assertEqual('Sampledatasource', all_datasources[1].content_url)
         self.assertEqual('2016-08-04T21:31:55Z', format_datetime(all_datasources[1].created_at))
         self.assertEqual('2016-08-04T21:31:55Z', format_datetime(all_datasources[1].updated_at))
@@ -94,6 +96,7 @@ def test_get_by_id(self):
 
         self.assertEqual('9dbd2263-16b5-46e1-9c43-a76bb8ab65fb', single_datasource.id)
         self.assertEqual('dataengine', single_datasource.datasource_type)
+        self.assertEqual('abc description xyz', single_datasource.description)
         self.assertEqual('Sampledatasource', single_datasource.content_url)
         self.assertEqual('2016-08-04T21:31:55Z', format_datetime(single_datasource.created_at))
         self.assertEqual('2016-08-04T21:31:55Z', format_datetime(single_datasource.updated_at))
@@ -102,7 +105,6 @@ def test_get_by_id(self):
         self.assertEqual('ee8c6e70-43b6-11e6-af4f-f7b0d8e20760', single_datasource.project_id)
         self.assertEqual('5de011f8-5aa9-4d5b-b991-f462c8dd6bb7', single_datasource.owner_id)
         self.assertEqual(set(['world', 'indicators', 'sample']), single_datasource.tags)
-        self.assertEqual("test-ds", single_datasource.description)
         self.assertEqual(TSC.DatasourceItem.AskDataEnablement.SiteDefault, single_datasource.ask_data_enablement)
 
     def test_update(self):