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Installation and Administration Guide

Investigate a Watermark

As a system administrator, you can investigate a watermark.

To investigate a watermark:

  1. Locate the file that you want to investigate.

    Note

    This file must be local to a data plane that has access to the tool, and it must be in .csv format.

  2. Locate the properties JSON file that you configured (see Configure Watermark Investigation).

  3. Run the watermark investigation tool, adding the properties JSON file as argument. For example:

    java -jar dsp_watermarking_investigation_shaded.jar ./path/to/properties.json

    The tool prompts you for a password.

  4. Enter the password associated with the username in the configuration file.

    The tool investigates the file.

    If it finds a watermark, it returns the following:

    • The project ID and project name associated with the dataset

    • The user ID and username (or that user's user group ID and group name) who queried the dataset through the project at the time that the platform created the result set

    If it does not find a watermark, it returns No watermark was found.

    If the configuration file has an incorrect property, the tool returns the error message Something went wrong reading the file, followed by a description of the error. For example, if the delimiter in the properties file does not match the delimiter in the .csv file, the tool returns the error message (line 1) invalid char between encapsulated token and delimiter.

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