Include Labels when pushing descriptions to superset

[aibunny]

I have noticed that only column descriptions are pushed to superset, I think it would be great if also Labels were included.

[one-data-cookie]

Thanks for the idea, @aibunny!

How would you imagine to store these in dbt YAML files so that they could be transferred to Superset? The only thing that comes to mind is under meta.label, or?

[aibunny]

My initial thoughts was to have them like below but also in the meta.label would still work.

models:
  - name: Blah blah
    description: blah data mart
  columns:
      - name: column1
      description: column1 desc
      label: Column 1

[one-data-cookie]

Well, that wouldn't throw you an error but it wouldn't show up in dbt Docs. Only meta.label does.

columns:
  - name: account_uuid
    description: '{{ doc("account_uuid") }}'
    label: "this-is-very-interesting"
    meta:
      label: "this-is-even-more-interesting"
      dog: "cat"

As you can see though, the issue is that you can put literally anything into meta so this is not really a standardised thing and I'm not sure whether anyone actually uses it like this.

[aibunny]

If it works let's have it

[one-data-cookie]

@aibunny Would you consider contributing? Alternatively, I can put this to my backlog and try adding it later on.

[aibunny]

sure

[aibunny]

I have done it, how should I contribute

[one-data-cookie]

Nice! This article should help I hope.