Starschema Tableau Web Table Connector (WDC) Toolkit / ConnectorBase

ConnectorBase has a few concepts that may feel different to the usual WDC development process:

A connector is built from a number of states/steps (like setup, authentication, running the connector), where each state/step has a separate representation in the UI (like a setup page, an authentication page, etc.)
The form inputs used by the connector are declared in the template for each state (instead of declaring them in the connector code itself), so you can keep your connector code DRY
The connector source code defines the JavaScript to be ran during transitions from one state to another. (like get the data from all the inputs and call tableau.submit() when transitioning from the start state to the run state.)

Building the twitter client

npm install
./build-twitter.sh

this copies the resources and builds the client using browserify.

Running the twitter client / server

coffee coffee/twitter_connector/twitter_auth_server.coffee

Then navigate to http://localhost:3000/twitter.html in the Simulator / Tableau.

Building the mongo/raw json client

Connecting to mongodb using the Simple REST API requires starting the mongod server with the --rest and --jsonp command line switches to enable the REST API and enable the connector to load data through JSONP.

For example on Ubuntu this may mean:

mongod --config /etc/mongodb.conf --rest --jsonp

To access the REST API from a different machine you also need to change the bind_ip configuration property in your mongodb configuration form 127.0.0.1 (the default that comes with most mongodb packages) to 0.0.0.0

After changing the bind address, starting mongod will issue a warning:

warning: bind_ip of 0.0.0.0 is unnecessary; listens on all ips by default

but this warning is a lie when it comes to the web interface used for the REST API.

Then build the mongodb connector:

./build-mongodb.sh

this copies the resources and builds the client using browserify and places the results in the dist folder.

Then fire up a web server in the dist directory and the mongodb connector should be accessible with mongodb.html.

Building the Business Objects connector

npm install
./build-sap-bo.sh