mysql: reading arbitrary SQL data in go is really strange, data is only in strings?

public/app/plugins/datasource/mysql/datasource.ts

@@ -7,24 +7,34 @@ export class MysqlDatasource {
   name: any;
 
   /** @ngInject */
-  constructor(instanceSettings, private backendSrv) {
+  constructor(instanceSettings, private backendSrv, private $q) {
     this.name = instanceSettings.name;
     this.id = instanceSettings.id;
   }
 
   query(options) {
+    var queries = _.filter(options.targets, item => {
+      return item.hide !== true;
+    }).map(item => {
+      return {
+        refId: item.refId,
+        intervalMs: options.intervalMs,
+        maxDataPoints: options.maxDataPoints,
+        datasourceId: this.id,
+        rawSql: item.rawSql,
+      };
+    });
+
+    if (queries.length === 0) {
+      return this.$q.when({data: []});
+    }
+
     return this.backendSrv.post('/api/tsdb/query', {
       from: options.range.from.valueOf().toString(),
       to: options.range.to.valueOf().toString(),
-      queries: [
-        {
-          "refId": "A",
-          "intervalMs": options.intervalMs,
-          "maxDataPoints": options.maxDataPoints,
-          "datasourceId": this.id,
-        }
-      ]
+      queries: queries,
     }).then(res => {
+      console.log('mysql response', res);
 
       var data = [];
       if (res.results) {

public/app/plugins/datasource/mysql/module.ts

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ class MysqlQueryCtrl extends QueryCtrl {
   static templateUrl = 'partials/query.editor.html';
 }
 
-class InfluxConfigCtrl {
+class MysqlConfigCtrl {
   static templateUrl = 'partials/config.html';
 }
 
@@ -16,5 +16,6 @@ export {
   MysqlDatasource,
   MysqlDatasource as Datasource,
   MysqlQueryCtrl as QueryCtrl,
+  MysqlConfigCtrl as ConfigCtrl,
 };
 

public/app/plugins/datasource/mysql/partials/query.editor.html

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <query-editor-row query-ctrl="ctrl" can-collapse="false">
-	<div class="gf-form-inline">
-		<div class="gf-form">
-			<label class="gf-form-label">Test metric (fake data source)</label>
+  <div class="gf-form-inline">
+		<div class="gf-form gf-form--grow">
+			<textarea rows="3" class="gf-form-input" ng-model="ctrl.target.rawSql" spellcheck="false" placeholder="query expression" data-min-length=0 data-items=100 ng-model-onblur ng-change="ctrl.refreshMetricData()"></textarea>
 		</div>
 	</div>
 </query-editor-row>

public/app/plugins/datasource/mysql/plugin.json

@@ -3,6 +3,17 @@
   "name": "MySQL",
   "id": "mysql",
 
+  "info": {
+    "author": {
+      "name": "Grafana Project",
+      "url": "https://grafana.com"
+    },
+    "logos": {
+      "small": "img/mysql_logo.svg",
+      "large": "img/mysql_logo.svg"
+    }
+  },
+
   "annotations": true,
   "metrics": true
 }