Hi everyone, I’m new to Meltano and working on creating a tap for Algolia. I’ve set up my config values using the instructions here (

meltano config tap-algolia set password <value>

, etc.) but when I try to test using

poetry run tap-algolia --discover

I get this error of “Config validation failed.” Does anyone know what I might be doing wrong here? Thank you!

Hi @sophie_lanier! Are you using the

meltano.yml

that comes with the cookiecutter? In that case, you

poetry run ...

will not work and you'll have to use

meltano invoke tap-algolia

. You can use

meltano config tap-algolia list

to confirm that the settings values are what you expect. Also, you can still use

poetry

to run the tap but you'll have to either 1. Put your setting values in

.secrets/config.json

and run

poetry run tap-algolia --config .secrets/config.json

2. Set environment variables (

TAP_ALGOLIA_API_URL

, etc.) and run

poetry run tap-algolia --config ENV

That’s super helpful, thank you! Do you know what would be any benefits/downsides to using poetry vs meltano to run things?

poetry

is an opinionated tool (and a good one imo) to manage a Python project/library. It makes it easy to add packages to your tap (like API clients, etc.), manage your tap version, make PyPI releases, run other tools like

poetry run pytest

for testing. That said, for test-running your tap, using

meltano

might be the better option: