GitHub provides hosting for software development version control using Git. This plugin would allow users to select the data sets associated with the specified repository and collect raw level data.

User Expectations

• Users would like to collect raw data sets associated with a specific repository so that they can perform monitoring and reporting on it
• User would like to perform aggregations on GitHub datasets so that they can get better understanding of the repository usage 

Plugin Type

• Batch Source
• Batch Sink 
• Real-time Source
• Real-time Sink
• Action
• Post-Run Action
• Aggregate
• Join
• Spark Model
• Spark Compute

User Configurations

Design / Implementation Tips

Plugin will be implemented using third-part The GitHub Java API library, It is part of the GitHub Eclipse Connector and aims to support the entire GitHub v3 API. 

Authentication will be performed using access token.

Output schema must be automatically generated from selected data. 

References

• GitHub API v3 documentation: https://developer.github.com/v3/
• GitHub API v4 (GraphQL) documentation: https://developer.github.com/v4/
• GitHub API v3 third-part libraries: https://developer.github.com/v3/libraries/