metatype is useful for cases where you want to have a single column always represent the element name, and the element type to switch depending on the row. If you do it this style, you always need a “name” column. Further up in the stack trace it was complaining about the name field missing.
Notes from @cmungall:
metatype is useful for cases where you want to have a single column always represent the element name, and the element type to switch depending on the row. If you do it this style, you always need a “name” column. Further up in the stack trace it was complaining about the name field missing.