+1 to the Rest API. I've used that with Python and the "requests" and "json" modules to great affect.
On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 11:06 PM, Charles Givre <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Peder, > Have you experimented with the RESTful interface as well as the ODBC/JDBC > connectivity features of Drill? You can use those, and some common python > libraries to write scripts that interact with Drill. > > Here’s an iPython Notebook that demonstrates the RESTful interface and > Drill. ( > https://github.com/cgivre/DS/blob/master/Querying%20Apache%20Drill%20via%20the%20RESTful%20Interface.ipynb > ) > > — C > > > On Dec 27, 2015, at 23:51, Peder Jakobsen | gmail <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Coming from the Python/Ruby /bash shell world, I find working SQLLine a > > hard pill to swallow; it's it's very "DOS" like, aka almost featureless. > > For this reason, I'd like to explore writing a python wrapper around the > > Drill C++ client libraries. What's the best way to learn to use this > > library? Is there a test suite I can run and study, perhaps with a bit of > > documentation for each test? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Peder J. > >
