Various people have done pretty much what you suggest. Can you say just a bit more about what you want to do? Are you looking to push queries down into the web service?
Does is the web service basically exposing a limited number of datasets that are not subject to filtering inside the web service? On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 1:03 PM Kojoukhov, Dmitry < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear Sir or Madam, > > We are currently evaluating Apache Drill for use as a data integration > solution in one of our projects, and we are quite impressed by user > friendliness and ease of configuration of the product. > > There is however one feature that we consider critical: we are looking for > a product that can, among other things, connect to a generic REST web > service based data source (by, for instance, letting the client code a > custom REST connector for such a data source). Then it would be possible to > use such a WS based data source just as any other data source that Drill > currently supports: run SQL queries against multiple data sources etc. > > Going through Drill documentation I have not found any mention of such > functionality. Could you please comment as to whether such functionality is > available or whether there are plans to add such functionality to Drill in > the foreseeable future? > > Many thanks in advance, > Dmitry Kozhukhov > Hoffman - La Roche >
