Re: Custom (mongodb) hook as a plugin

[Jakob Homan <jg...@gmail.com>]

On 23 September 2016 at 15:06, Rob Goretsky <ro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> More generally, would it make sense to create an enhancement to the plugin
> architecture that allows the developer of a new hook to also specify the
> name of a new 'connection type' along with what fields would be required
> for that connection type?  The web UI would then take its existing
> hardcoded list and append these plugged-in connection types and fields to
> display...

Yeah, I filed a ticket a while ago to do so
(https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AIRFLOW-235)

Additionally, it would be good if the connections were not hardcoded
so that it were easier to add new connections directly (perhaps
through the config file)

-Jakob