I am building a custom connector for a SaaS platform where you provide a list of “projects,” and it will then discover datasets (streams) within those projects. Each dataset has a name (e.g. “My Project”) and an ID (e.g., UUID). I want the name returned in the catalog to be a human-readable name, but the APIs all operate on IDs.
I don’t understand whether there is a place I can stash the return ID in the catalog so that it’s available in my read() method. Without this, I have to go and re-fetch all the datasets again to try and match the name, to get the ID to then pass back. I don’t want to change the name to the ID (as then it’s no longer readable). I can do the “look through every named dataset,” but it seems unnecessary since I have the information in hand when I created the catalog in discover(). There is a namespace option in the AirbyteStream class, but it says all streams returned from a source should share the same namespace.
Is there any connector-specific configuration storage within the catalog where I can keep this information? Or is the only option to just re-scan everything to do the name → id mapping?
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