Meltano

I'm enjoying the `meltano select...` feature to select properties to include. Like, a lot more than manually editing the catalog files. Now I need to set different metadata values. How could I go about that?

That's not supported yet: <https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/2026>

I'd love to hear your thoughts on how we could solve that though, if you'd like to comment in the issue :slightly_smiling_face:

I'll put some comments in. Is there any way to manually set values ATM?

<@U06C8NEFG2Z> What might work is removing the `discover`  capability from your custom tap so that Meltano won't try to automatically run discovery mode and apply the `meltano select` rules, and then manually dropping a file in `.meltano/run/&lt;extractor&gt;/tap.properties.json`

You'll still be able to run `meltano invoke &lt;extractor&gt; --discover` without that capability being set, so you could still run that and use it to programmatically generate the final file, instead of hard coding it and `cp`'ing it into place

Will `meltano select` work if discovery is disabled?

<@U06C8NEFG2Z> No, it's either-or right now, between having Meltano generate the catalog file, or doing it yourself

Thanks for commenting on the issue, I'll have a look today or tomorrow!

Check this out: <https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/2026#note_364189740> :slightly_smiling_face:

Here we go: <https://meltano.slack.com/archives/CP8K1MXAN/p1592606314047800> :smile: