Storage driver deployment
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Key: HCATALOG-76
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HCATALOG-76
Project: HCatalog
Issue Type: Improvement
Reporter: Olga Natkovich
We need to have a way to add new drivers to the system. This raises a few
questions:
(1) Where the drivers stored in SVN
(2) What is the structure of deployed drivers (packages, directory structure,
config, etc.)
(3) How drivers get deployed
We are working on the Hbase driver for HCat and starting to look at (1). Our
proposal is to keep things simple and to create a driver directory in HCatalog
source tree with a directory for each driver. Each driver would then have its
own build process, dependencies etc. At the end of the build process it will
produce whatever we decide is required for (2) but at least one or more jar
files. We think all core drivers including the current default ones should
follow the same structure (though we do not have to jump right away and
re-factor the code). The core drivers would be the ones that the project agrees
to maintain long term. We can also have similar structure under contrib for
those that not initial considered to be core ones. Comments?
We have some suggestions for (2) and (3) as well but want to discuss (1) first
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