I concur with Dmitry here. Having the ability to query a REST API from Drill would be super useful. There is this repo on github: https://github.com/kevinlynx/drill-storage-http, but it looks abandoned. I'd really love for someone to take this up and get it into Drill. -- C
> On May 29, 2019, at 4:48 PM, Ted Dunning <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 >>
