This resource_type method works for sources in dbt 1.7.8 (and possibly earlier versions)

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Contributions

• I have read the contribution docs, and understand what's expected of me.

Link to the page on docs.getdbt.com requiring updates

https://docs.getdbt.com/reference/node-selection/methods#the-resource_type-method

What part(s) of the page would you like to see updated?

Is this true?

We added the following in #4145 (in response to dbt-labs/dbt-core#8730):

It works now?!

All of the following worked for me with dbt-core 1.7.8 and 1.6.5 (but not 1.5.9):

dbt list --select resource_type:source+
dbt run --select resource_type:source+
dbt build --select resource_type:source+

For example:

$ dbt list --select resource_type:source

01:52:08  Running with dbt=1.7.8
01:52:08  Registered adapter: postgres=1.7.8
01:52:08  Found 1 seed, 1 snapshot, 1 analysis, 2 models, 1 test, 1 source, 1 exposure, 1 metric, 401 macros, 1 group, 1 semantic model
source:my_project.my_src.my_seed

Additional information

See dbt-labs/dbt-core#8730 (comment)