[ZEPPELIN-3383] ZeppelinContext method to get form input data

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: documentation, GUI
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Sanjay Dasgupta
• Created: 03/Apr/18 10:47
• Updated: 04/Apr/18 01:29

Description

There have been requests for a method to enable programmatic access to form input data (e.g. Zeppelin-425). It is proposed to augment ZeppelinContext with the following method to allow such access:

z.getFormInput("var-name")

The availability of getFormInput() will also allow form inputs to be used globally across the notebook (also often requested, e.g. Zeppelin-1680) by creating a Z variable with the same name:

z.put("var-name", z.getFormInput("var-name"))