Hey there, I am new to meltano, and I have a question, how do I create a bookmark when I run a tap? When I execute the isolated tap it makes records of type STATE, but when I do it with the command

meltano elt tap-my-tap target-jsonl

it doesn't send me any record of that type, according to the documentation it should create an independent file with these states, but it doesn't do it.

I believe you're looking for the --job_id argument. That's how meltano knows what state to save/use.

But how do I make it create the file with the states? I created the tap with meltano's singer_sdk.

🤔 I'm not an expert here so I may be misunderstanding your question. The taps I've worked with all allow you to provide a state file if you run them directly. My understanding is that Meltano provides that file when you specify the --job_id argument but does not provide the file if you don't. So no --job_id argument, no state.

@thomas_briggs is right - technically behind the scenes Meltano is storing your state in the system db then it makes it accessible to the tap/target. Check out https://docs.meltano.com/guide/integration#incremental-replication-state for more details but as long as you provide the

--job_id=x

then youre state will be managed. If youre asking how to view state you can use the

--dump=state

option with

elt

to get the contents like

meltano elt --dump=state tap-x target-y --job_id=123

Thank you very much, I appreciate the information. It is very useful to me

That is correct!