Hey everyone,
I wanted to send this out to gather some opinions before I submit any
PRs on this topic. I've been using zeppelin for about 7 months now, and it
has gained rapid adoption amongst my team. Unfortunately, one sticking
point for our team is it's lack of some useful data source exploration
tools (if there is such functionality and I just missed it, please let me
know!).
I made a simple change to the JDBC interpreter to add an "explore" feature
as shown in this video I recorded (https://s3.amazonaws.com/scre
enshots-mockups/embedvid.html).
I understand that JDBC data source metadata can be gathered using SQL but
this works exclusively through the JDBC driver api and seems like a simple
and clean way to get tables and views while working on a query.
I've tested this with PostgreSQL and MySQL and I just wanted to see if the
community thinks this is valuable. I see in the sourcecode something called
the "sqlCompleter" which appears to work with metadata but I'm not sure if
or how this pulls data source tables and views so please let me know if I'm
missing something big. If this feature seems useful, then once PR-1744 (
https://github.com/apache/zeppelin/pull/1744) is merged I'll open a PR for
this.
Sincerely,
-Peter
