Meltano

How can I manually set the `replication_key_value`? I am tapping an API where I must sort descending, so I want `replication_key_value` to be a timestamp of when I start a tap run. I set `self.replication_key_value` in the stream, but the state that is emitted is not affected by this

This works. Is this best practice?
```state = self.get_context_state(None)
state["replication_key_value"] = .......```

the SDK always expects new replication values to be greater than the one before, so that may be why the state emitted doesn't reflect the timestamp. You may be better off using the state helper `increment_state` , which is part of the experimental `_state` module (cc <@U06CBKL5W7L>)

Thanks Edgar. That makes sense that it wouldn't function as expected with a descending sort order