I'm stuck with my attempts to use mapper in Meltan...
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andrey_tatarinov
07/07/2022, 6:53 PMI'm stuck with my attempts to use mapper in Meltano.
Does anyone have a working example of using
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07/07/2022, 6:54 PMI need
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edgar_ramirez_mondragon
07/07/2022, 7:12 PMHi @andrey_tatarinov! What have you tried so far?
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andrey_tatarinov
07/07/2022, 7:44 PMBy some miracle I found this issue: https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/2299
And this comment from Florian finally shed some light: https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/2299#note_811296197
andrey_tatarinov
07/07/2022, 7:44 PMI got it working
andrey_tatarinov
07/07/2022, 7:45 PMIt was extremely unobvious that mapper is not a plugin that you use by it's name, as every other plugin, but a factory of plugins with multiple names and configs based on
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taylor
07/07/2022, 7:51 PMAny thoughts to how we could update the documentation to make that clearer? We tried to add that context in https://docs.meltano.com/concepts/plugins#how-to-use-12 but perhaps it's buried?
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andrey_tatarinov
07/07/2022, 8:12 PMwow, how could I miss it?
andrey_tatarinov
07/07/2022, 8:14 PMI've been on this page, but both intro and table of contents do not have mentions of mappers, so I thought that they are not described here
andrey_tatarinov
07/07/2022, 8:15 PMI think it would help to have more verbose table of contents, maybe
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taylor
07/07/2022, 8:15 PMI'll add that to a comment in https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/3445 cc @amanda.folson Thanks for the feedback Andrey 🙂