Meltano

Can someone describe to me the best practices/method of putting configuration parameters into the development environment when developing a tap?

Do they go in meltano.yml? If doing it through a .env file is the variable name just [tapname]_[variablename]? Does one have to do anything in tap.py to get it to load the properties from the .env?

I ended up just copying the way meltano does it in the meltano squared repo

<https://github.com/meltano/squared/tree/main/data/environments>

so you can see for example extractors have certain settings - lets call them default settings in the extract folder - and the env specific files have overrides for the settings that should change per env.

as far as setting env vars you can set them in the .env file - there is a standard naming - I used the CLI when i was first learning to pick it up - <https://docs.meltano.com/reference/command-line-interface/#environment>