Tableau Hyper file reader - Can i without going into dev mode?

Hi Folks

So off a question posted yesterday

https://community.knime.com/c/ask-the-community/missing-some-standard-connectivity-known-from-alteryx

I thought i would give a crack at create a hyper file reader.

Initially i wanted to see if i can do this without having to go full dev mode.

The hyper api libraries are made available in knime once you download the tableau extension, which means from a java perspective a reader should not be a taxing thing.

My theory was i could use the java snippet to use the hyper api, read in the file and output the table. This came to a crashing hault when i realised the java snippet node works row by row, so… this isn’t going to work.

I could go down the python route, however this necessitates for other users to have a python env ready (which doesn’t come ‘pre-laoded’ with Knime) so the installation steps would be generally too taxing (i’m thinking non coding business users working on corporate hardware with limited admin capability).

so this is now pointing me to go full dev route… (am i ready to climb that mountain? :grimacing:)

Before i do, i wondered if the hive mind might have another non dev route possibility?

ciao

Gavin