[DISCUSS]: Storage Plugin Development

[Charles Givre <cg...@gmail.com>]

All, 
I want to thank everyone for the discussion on Drill Developers Day about storage plugin development.  I was thinking about this, and there is a storage plugin out there which would enable Drill to query REST interfaces that return JSON data.  I’d like to propose that we as a community complete work on this plugin and get it incorporated into Drill.  
My logic is that REST APIs are easy to understand—you don’t have to have an in depth understanding of their internals to get data—and that this could be a “template" for future storage plugin development.  

Clearly, I would like for us to develop simpler ways of developing storage plugins, however, I think completing this might be a good first step so that more people can understand the mechanisms of how storage plugins work. 

Thoughts?