gooddata-flexconnect 1.43.1.dev1

Build your own data source for GoodData Cloud and GoodData Cloud Native.

GoodData FlexConnect

GoodData FlexConnect allows you to build your own data source for GoodData Cloud or Cloud Native.

FlexConnect works with a concept similar to 'table functions' that you may already know from database technologies.

• To build your own data source, you implement one or more FlexConnect functions. The functions compute and return tabular data - how they do it is completely up to you.
• The functions are hosted and invoked inside a FlexConnect server (which is included in this package).
• A running FlexConnect server can be added as a data source to your GoodData Cloud or GoodData Cloud Native.
• The functions available on FlexConnect server will be mapped to data sets within GoodData's Semantic Model and from then on can be used during report computation.

Getting Started using the FlexConnect

The easiest and recommended way to get started with FlexConnect is to use the template repository.

The template repository is set up with project infrastructure and boilerplate related to testing, packaging and running your FlexConnect functions. You can start building your own data source in under a minute.

The template also comes with extensive documentation which will guide you through all important steps and facets of building production-ready FlexConnect functions.

If you are eager to get started, here is a short snippet to bootstrap a new FlexConnect project:

git clone https://github.com/gooddata/gooddata-flexconnect-template.git my-flexconnect
cd my-flexconnect
rm -rf .git && git init && git add . && git commit -m "Initial commit"