Smoke Test

tap-smoke-test (meltano variant)🥇

Generates sample data to be used for testing.

The tap-smoke-test extractor pulls data from Smoke Test that can then be sent to a destination using a loader.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

If you haven't already, follow the initial steps of the Getting Started guide:

  1. Install Meltano
  2. Create your Meltano project

Installation and configuration

  1. Add the tap-smoke-test extractor to your project using
    meltano add
    :
  2. meltano add extractor tap-smoke-test
  3. Configure the tap-smoke-test settings using
    meltano config
    :
  4. meltano config tap-smoke-test set --interactive
  5. Test that extractor settings are valid using
    meltano config
    :
  6. meltano config tap-smoke-test test

Next steps

If you run into any issues, learn how to get help.

Capabilities

The current capabilities for tap-smoke-test may have been automatically set when originally added to the Hub. Please review the capabilities when using this extractor. If you find they are out of date, please consider updating them by making a pull request to the YAML file that defines the capabilities for this extractor.

This plugin has the following capabilities:

  • about
  • batch
  • catalog
  • discover
  • schema-flattening
  • state
  • stream-maps

You can override these capabilities or specify additional ones in your meltano.yml by adding the capabilities key.

Settings

The tap-smoke-test settings that are known to Meltano are documented below. To quickly find the setting you're looking for, click on any setting name from the list:

You can also list these settings using

meltano config
with the list subcommand:

meltano config tap-smoke-test list

You can override these settings or specify additional ones in your meltano.yml by adding the settings key.

Please consider adding any settings you have defined locally to this definition on MeltanoHub by making a pull request to the YAML file that defines the settings for this plugin.

Schema Inference Record Count (schema_inference_record_count)

  • Environment variable: TAP_SMOKE_TEST_SCHEMA_INFERENCE_RECORD_COUNT
  • Default Value: 5

How many records of the source data should be used for schema inference/construction.


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-smoke-test set schema_inference_record_count [value]

Streams (streams)

  • Environment variable: TAP_SMOKE_TEST_STREAMS

An array of objects containing:

  • stream_name: The name of the stream.
  • input_filename: Path to a jsonl file containing records to use for mock data.
  • client_exception: (Default False) Whether we should simulate failing by having the client raise an exception.
  • schema_gen_exception: (Default False) Whether we should simulate failing by raising an exception during schema inference.
  • loop_count: (Default 1) The number of times we should playback the input file.

For example:

streams:
- stream_name: animals
  input_filename: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/meltano/tap-smoke-test/main/demo-data/animals-data.jsonl

Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-smoke-test set streams [value]
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Batch Compression Format (batch_config.encoding.compression)

  • Environment variable: TAP_SMOKE_TEST_BATCH_CONFIG_ENCODING_COMPRESSION

Compression format to use for batch files.


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-smoke-test set batch_config encoding.compression [value]

Batch Encoding Format (batch_config.encoding.format)

  • Environment variable: TAP_SMOKE_TEST_BATCH_CONFIG_ENCODING_FORMAT

Format to use for batch files.


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-smoke-test set batch_config encoding.format [value]

Batch Storage Prefix (batch_config.storage.prefix)

  • Environment variable: TAP_SMOKE_TEST_BATCH_CONFIG_STORAGE_PREFIX

Prefix to use when writing batch files.


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-smoke-test set batch_config storage.prefix [value]

Batch Storage Root (batch_config.storage.root)

  • Environment variable: TAP_SMOKE_TEST_BATCH_CONFIG_STORAGE_ROOT

Root path to use when writing batch files.


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-smoke-test set batch_config storage.root [value]

Faker Locale (faker_config.locale)

  • Environment variable: TAP_SMOKE_TEST_FAKER_CONFIG_LOCALE

One or more LCID locale strings to produce localized output for: https://faker.readthedocs.io/en/master/#localization


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-smoke-test set faker_config locale [value]

Faker Seed (faker_config.seed)

  • Environment variable: TAP_SMOKE_TEST_FAKER_CONFIG_SEED

Value to seed the Faker generator for deterministic output: https://faker.readthedocs.io/en/master/#seeding-the-generator


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-smoke-test set faker_config seed [value]

Enable Schema Flattening (flattening_enabled)

  • Environment variable: TAP_SMOKE_TEST_FLATTENING_ENABLED

'True' to enable schema flattening and automatically expand nested properties.


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-smoke-test set flattening_enabled [value]

Max Flattening Depth (flattening_max_depth)

  • Environment variable: TAP_SMOKE_TEST_FLATTENING_MAX_DEPTH

The max depth to flatten schemas.


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-smoke-test set flattening_max_depth [value]

User Stream Map Configuration (stream_map_config)

  • Environment variable: TAP_SMOKE_TEST_STREAM_MAP_CONFIG

User-defined config values to be used within map expressions.


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-smoke-test set stream_map_config [value]

Stream Maps (stream_maps)

  • Environment variable: TAP_SMOKE_TEST_STREAM_MAPS

Config object for stream maps capability. For more information check out Stream Maps.


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-smoke-test set stream_maps [value]

Something missing?

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Edit it on GitHub!

Looking for help?

If you're having trouble getting the tap-smoke-test extractor to work, look for an existing issue in its repository, file a new issue, or join the Meltano Slack community and ask for help in the
#plugins-general
channel.

Install

meltano add extractor tap-smoke-test

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