A couple of different folks have hit hard-to-diagnose errors when they pass in a string for the options field in external materializations; since I need to be able to use the partition_by field in order to correctly create a view for the materialized file(s), I need to keep the options field as a dictionary and provide a more helpful error message in the situation that another variable type (e.g., a string) is passed instead.
A couple of different folks have hit hard-to-diagnose errors when they pass in a string for the
optionsfield in external materializations; since I need to be able to use thepartition_byfield in order to correctly create a view for the materialized file(s), I need to keep theoptionsfield as a dictionary and provide a more helpful error message in the situation that another variable type (e.g., a string) is passed instead.