Currently all {{...}} placeholders in https://github.com/CODAIT/exchange-metadata-converter/tree/main/templates are considered to be required and therefore each placeholder input file must define them. Annotations would solve this issue. Investigate what it takes to support something like this, where @annotation_key serves as a hint to the processing engine and doesn't invalidate the YAML file because it is specified as a comment.
property: '{{value}}' # just a comment
another:
property2: '{{value2}}' # @optional and a comment
third_property: # comment only
fourth_property:
fifth_property: '{{value6}}' # @annotation_only
Currently all
{{...}}placeholders in https://github.com/CODAIT/exchange-metadata-converter/tree/main/templates are considered to be required and therefore each placeholder input file must define them. Annotations would solve this issue. Investigate what it takes to support something like this, where@annotation_keyserves as a hint to the processing engine and doesn't invalidate the YAML file because it is specified as a comment.