Hi 👋 i'm struggling to load additional taps, running Meltano locally with Docker

docker run -v $(pwd):/project -w /project meltano/meltano add --custom extractor tap-covid-19
The `namespace` refers to the data source name.
It is used to infer compatibility between components.
(namespace): Aborted!

Am I doing something silly! https://www.singer.io/tap/covid-19-public-data/

Hi @louis_knight-webb! Did you enter any text in when it asked for the namespace? Using the name of the tap as the namespace could make sense, so in this case I'd try 'tap-covid-19'

@al_whatmough Thanks Al, I think that should work! @louis_knight-webb Thanks for reporting this here; the fact that this wasn't obvious means the documentation needs an update. I'll handle that tomorrow!

Thanks @al_whatmough @douwe_maan. It never asked for a namespace, I literally typed the command

docker run -v $(pwd):/project -w /project meltano/meltano add --custom extractor tap-covid-19

and then got the error

Hey again @louis_knight-webb, ah you could try running the docker command with the

--interactive

flag like this:

docker run --interactive -v $(pwd):/project -w /project meltano/meltano add --custom extractor tap-covid-19

Magic, working now thanks 🙂

@louis_knight-webb Editing the meltano.yml file directly like you did would've actually worked as well if you had followed it by

meltano install

, but Al is right:

meltano add --custom

is the recommended approach, but expects to be run in interactive mode, which is not enabled by default when using

docker run

. I'll make sure both are more clear going forward!

Got it. I'm just a docker noob! Thanks for being so responsive all

@louis_knight-webb Thanks for giving us a try! 😄