Hi, I have a question about arrays in environment variables. Command

meltano config tap-csv set files '[{ "entity": "example", "file": "example.csv" },{ "entity": "example2", "file": "example2.csv" }]'

writes this to `meltano.yml`:

config:
  files:
  - entity: example
    file: example.csv
  - entity: example2
    file: example2.csv

Is there a way how to "overwrite" these values by environment variable? I know how to overwrite simple string value:

meltano config tap-csv set files ''

export TAP_CSV_FILES="simple"

meltano config tap-csv list

files [env: TAP_CSV_FILES] current value: 'simple' (from the environment)

However, is there similar approach for arrays? Command

export TAP_CSV_FILES="[{ "entity": "example", "file": "example.csv" },{ "entity": "example2", "file": "example2.csv" }]"

is not equivalent to the

meltano.yml

configuration.

@jan_fertek Thanks for reporting this! You're doing everything right as described under https://meltano.com/docs/configuration.html#custom-settings (since

files

is not currently explicitly defined in

discovery.yml

: https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/2345), but Meltano isn't correctly casting the environment variable's string value to an array to match the type of the custom setting in

meltano.yml

: https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/2346 I'll make sure both issues are resolved in today's release 🙂

I'll make sure both issues are resolved in today's release 🙂

Wow, thank you so much! yay