Hey Everyone, Building a custom extractor, works perfectly. However, it's using

api_key

as auth method. I want the authenticator to pull the value for the

api_key

from the

.env

file as it's currently stored as value in the config block in

meltano.yml

. I've searched the docs but I'm at a loss as to how to do this for a custom plugin, without importing

dotenv

. I've tried following examples from existing taps which appear to pull values from

.env

files using

self.config

If I put the key in the

.env

file I get an error stating that

auth_token

is a required field. Indicating that Meltano is looking through the config block but not looking through the

.env

file.

@property
def authenticator(self) -> APIKeyAuthenticator:
"""Return a new authenticator object.

    Returns:
      An authenticator instance.
    """
return APIKeyAuthenticator.create_for_stream(
      self,
      key=self.config["key_name"],
      value=self.config["auth_token"],
      location="header",
    )

What command are you running to test your plugin? You have to invoke it through Meltano to leverage config lookup from shell environment or

.env

(as well as other sources, like

meltano.yml

):

meltano invoke my-custom-extractor

or pass the value

ENV

for the

--config

option if invoking the plugin directly

poetry run my-custom-extractor --config ENV

.env

wasn't in root dir of project 🤦‍♂️

Haha, no problem 😄