Developing Plugins Guide

This section is intended for developers writing custom plugins. Users of plugins and pipelines should refer to the documentation on using plugins.

CDAP provides for the creation of custom plugins to extend the existing cdap-data-pipeline and cdap-data-streams system artifacts.

Deploying plugins is covered under Plugin Management: Plugin Deployment, for deploying as either a system or user artifact.

• Plugin Basics: Plugin types, Maven archetypes, plugin class annotations, and plugin configuration

• Creating a Plugin: The Java methods that need to be implemented for each plugin type

• Plugin Presentation: Controlling how your plugin appears in the Pipeline Studio

• Testing Plugins: Using CDAP testing facilities and the CDAP Pipelines test module

• Packaging Plugins: Packaging a plugin in a JAR