Meltano

Re. stream maps. and <https://sdk.meltano.com/en/latest/stream_maps.html#enabling-stream-maps-in-sdk-based-plugins>

If a tap doesn't have `stream_maps` or `stream_map_config`  set in the tap config, is there anything I can do downstream to enable stream maps?

Or are my options: 1) a PR to the tap repo, 2) a fork?

<https://docs.meltano.com/guide/mappers#standalone-mapper-plugins>

Standalone mappers?

Taps should normally support stream maps even if they don't declare the settings, unless they're on a really old version of the SDK, in which case a fork (and PR, in case the maintainer is available and interested) to bump the SDK version is the best option.

Curious, which tap is this?

tap-instagram with voxmedia variant, SDK v 0.4.2

Not sure if that qualifies as really old!

Well, that's almost 2 years old now! :sweat_smile: <https://pypi.org/project/singer-sdk/0.4.2/>

The latest is v0.34.1, published last month.

Looking at <https://github.com/meltano/sdk/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#042---2022-02-04|the changelog entry> though, streams maps should be supported if you declare them in `meltano.yml`.

I'm looking to use `datetime` stuff so I think 0.14 minimum? <https://github.com/meltano/sdk/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#v0140-2022-11-16>

Yeah, that's right. You'd need to bump the sdk to at least that version to get those functions in stream maps.