What is meta programming ? Can you generate xfr dynamically? How to use in abinitio graph?

Answer Posted / saggy

by using Meta programming function you can add, remove fields dynamically. you can able to create xfr, transform function, add rules to transformation.
You can use functions like make_transform, make_rule, add_args, etc to generate xfr dynamically.
you can use this xfr which generate xfr in reformat component and having dml reference which is also generated at run time.

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