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Add support for aliasing columns in only one input dataset #19 #116

Closed jrbalch543 closed 1 year ago

jrbalch543 commented 1 year ago

This is meant to address things from Github Issue #19 and allow for a user to rename a column from B to fit the schema from A. This should be looked at after the other branch is merged (I forgot to swap back onto main before branching). Does this look like it should meaningfully address things? I'm not entirely sure if set_valuecolumn would do the same thing, but this passes my initial testing to rename a column in B to fit A.

jrbalch543 commented 1 year ago

Lookalike this function already exists, so that's cool. Can be done with "set_valuecolumn" and "overridecolumn" in the config. Can maybe be simpler, but is definitely possible, but is undocumented.

riley-harper commented 1 year ago

Yes, I'm going to close this in favor of documenting the existing features as in #118.