#20986 Full support for target generators that create targets of multiple types Issue created by ndellosa95 Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. This is technically possible already in that Pants does not check that the targets you generate actually conform to the type specified as the

generated_target_cls

. It is even used here and a few other places to generate a

_generator_sources_helper

target. However, certain features such as

__defaults__

and maybe parametrize are limited to a single target type based on the code here. Describe the solution you'd like Fully supporting target generators generating multiple different target types that are defaults-compatible. Describe alternatives you've considered One alternate solution that I'm not positive would work is using a base target generator to generate additional target generators that each generate targets of a single type. However, this feels like a hack given that multi-type target generators are already in use in pants core code. Additional context This is part of the open-source pants dbt backend plugin I am creating. Originally I had separate target generators for each component of a dbt project (models, macros, tests, etc). However, given that dbt already enforces a project structure defined in its root project file

dbt_project.yml

I think an even better solution would be just to have a single

dbt_project

target generator that generates all of the targets downstream. pantsbuild/pants