Documentation should clearly specify the difference between system and user artifacts for Hydrator plugins

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The documentation doesn't clearly specify what the difference between deploying the hydrator plugin as a system artifact vs user artifact here:
http://docs.cask.co/cdap/3.2.1/en/included-applications/etl/custom.html#plugin-packaging-and-deployment

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John Jackson November 19, 2015 at 8:43 PM

This was described in a number of places, but the place referenced in the description was the one place that this was not made clear. This PR fixes that.

John Jackson November 19, 2015 at 8:41 PM

John Jackson November 19, 2015 at 8:01 PM

This information is actually currently included in another place in the documentation: http://docs.cask.co/cdap/3.2.1/en/developers-manual/building-blocks/plugins.html#plugin-deployment. However, this could also be included in the ETL documentation.

John Jackson November 19, 2015 at 7:21 PM

One thing to note is that deploying a user artifact just requires acess to the rest apis,
while a system artifact requires access to the filesystem on the cdap master,
so it is more of an admin operation, (by design)

John Jackson November 19, 2015 at 7:20 PM

System artifacts are available across all namespaces while user artifacts are local to one namespace.

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Created November 18, 2015 at 5:19 PM
Updated July 17, 2020 at 12:26 AM
Resolved November 30, 2015 at 9:03 PM