(I know it is busy time with a release, but please don't forget to address this inquiry once the release rush is over.) I am working on Excel and EDI pieces, and given that Excel is easier, I really want to start moving forward and contribute plug in.
I just need some serious direction. We can also discuss tomorrow in a Hangout. Thank you, Edmon On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Edmon Begoli <[email protected]> wrote: > I want to implement a support for Excel files, both .xls and .xlsx, > through Apache POI > which will give me access to Java objects including column names, column > values > and it will expose the set of types supports. > > (I recorded this issue here: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-3738) > > In other words, I will be doing file I/O and column r/w through POI, so I > will need to write an adapter in Drill for storage and read/write. > > What is the best way to do this? > > Which classes should I extend or interfaces implement in order to support > Excel files in Drill? > > I could probably still go with easy storage approach because POI makes it > easy and the data is tabularly oriented just as csv, but with extended > types (ints, floats, numerics). > > Please give me some guidance in form of a "you need to implement x,y and z > to make this work". > > Thank you in advance, > Edmon > > > >
