Hi Moon, I believe there are many use cases beyound our needs, when users could access rest API directly through 'z' variable.
Done: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZEPPELIN-1814 Thank you. -- Ruslan Dautkhanov On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 8:53 AM, moon <m...@zepl.com> wrote: > Hi Ruslan, > > Although you can always create your function that call Zeppelin's rest API > to add paragraph, > providing capability to add paragraph through 'z' (more precisely, from > Interpreter) helps > provide user more interactive usage of notebook i think. > > Do you mind file an issue for this feature? > > Thanks, > moon > > On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 2:55 PM Ruslan Dautkhanov <dautkha...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > We'd like to have paragraph's code generated by a preceding paragraph. > > > > For example, one of the use cases we have > > is when %pyspark generates Hive DDLs. > > (can't run those in Spark in some cases) > > Any chance an output of a paragraph can be redirected to a following > > paragraph? > > > > I was thinking something like this could be used > > > > https://zeppelin.apache.org/docs/latest/rest-api/rest- > notebook.html#create-a-new-paragraph > > http:// > > [zeppelin-server]:[zeppelin-port]/api/notebook/[notebookId]/paragraph > > But not sure if there is a easy way to call Zeppelin API directly through > > "z" variable? > > > > Something like z.addParagraph(...) > > > > In most cases a paragraph generates a SQL code that can't be run directly > > as Spark SQL > > and has to be run by a different engine, for example, by Hive. > > > > > > Thanks, > > Ruslan > > > > >