+2
I really like this idea.
—C
> On May 25, 2016, at 08:52, Jim Scott <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> +1
>
> On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 7:05 AM, John Omernik <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Prior to opening a JIRA on this, I was curious what the community thought.
>> I'd like to have a setting for workspaces that would indicate "hidden".
>> (Defaulting to false if not specified to not break any already implemented
>> workspace definitions)
>>
>> For example:
>>
>> "workspaces" {
>> "dev": {
>> "location": "/mydev",
>> "writable": true,
>> "defaultInputFormat": null,
>> "hidden": true
>> }
>> }
>>
>> This would have the effect that when running "show schemas" this workspace
>> would not show up in the list.
>>
>> Reasoning: When organizing a large enterprise data
>> lake/ocean/cistern/swamp, limited "functional" options provided to the user
>> are better then "all" the options. For example, as an administrator, I
>> may want to define workspaces to help clarify ETL processes, or service
>> loads that if the user HAS filesystem access they CAN access, however, they
>> will never want to, instead, the user would focused on cleaned/enriched
>> data. My users would rarely use the "cp" plugin, however, I don't want to
>> eliminate it. Basically, it doesn't show in show schema, but it can still
>> be used both directly in queries, and through the use command.
>>
>> Another example: I create home schemas based on a home directory of every
>> user. Users's will know it's there, and can easily access it, however,
>> showing up in "show schemas" doesn't provide value, and just clutters the
>> data returned in the response. I want to attempt to provide a clean
>> interface and depiction of valuable schemas to my user via workspaces, and
>> this small flag, I believe would be a low impact way to do that.
>>
>> I would love discussion on this, if others would find this valuable, I will
>> happily make a JIRA.
>>
>> John
>>
>
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