paul-rogers commented on a change in pull request #1892: Drill-7437: Storage
Plugin for Generic HTTP REST API
URL: https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/1892#discussion_r352253816
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File path: contrib/storage-http/README.md
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+# Generic API Storage Plugin
+This plugin is intended to enable you to query APIs over HTTP/REST. At this
point, the API reader will only accept JSON as input however in the future, it
may be possible to
+ add additional format readers to allow for APIs which return XML, CSV or
other formats.
+
+Note: This plugin should **NOT** be used for interacting with tools which
have REST APIs such as Splunk or Solr. It will not be performant for those use
cases.
+
+## Configuration
+To configure the plugin, create a new storage plugin, and add the following
configuration options:
+
+```
+{
+ "type": "http",
+ "connection": "https://api.sunrise-sunset.org/";,
+ "resultKey": "results",
+ "enabled": true
Review comment:
Many APIs require some form of security key. Sometimes set as a cookie,
sometimes embedded in the REST request.
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