Is there a way to verify a plugin connection using the CLI? The app has the

Test Connection

feature discussed here, so I was wondering if something like

meltano verify <plugin>

would be helpful.

You can invoke the tap by itself using

meltano invoke

https://meltano.com/docs/command-line-interface.html#invoke

Right. Would it be possible to invoke some tap - ideally using the plugin configuration a user has already defined in Meltano - in this way and have it exit after receiving any

record

message (i.e. not running the entire EL process)?

Invoke will read from your meltano config. We don’t have an official test method that will stop once a record message is output, but you can stop the execution if you see one. That’d be a nice feature to have though! Would you mind filing an issue around that?

@Reuben (Matatika) this issue might be of interest 🙂

I will open an issue. Our intended use case is more along the lines of verifying that the supplied properties for an individual tap or target results in a successful connection to the corresponding service, prior to running the actual EL pipeline. Thanks for the link @ken_payne!

We have an issue already: https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/2609 🙂

Thanks @douwe_maan!

Thanks @douwe_maan. I’ll have a read-through of that and some of the related issues, and leave some comments. 😄

Thanks!