Merge pull request #15368 from grafana/15217-panels-without-queries

POC: Panels without queries can skip DataPanel

pkg/api/frontendsettings.go

@@ -145,6 +145,7 @@ func (hs *HTTPServer) getFrontendSettingsMap(c *m.ReqContext) (map[string]interf
 			"info":         panel.Info,
 			"hideFromList": panel.HideFromList,
 			"sort":         getPanelSort(panel.Id),
+			"dataFormats":  panel.DataFormats,
 		}
 	}
 

pkg/plugins/panel_plugin.go

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import "encoding/json"
 
 type PanelPlugin struct {
 	FrontendPluginBase
+	DataFormats []string `json:"dataFormats"`
 }
 
 func (p *PanelPlugin) Load(decoder *json.Decoder, pluginDir string) error {
@@ -15,6 +16,10 @@ func (p *PanelPlugin) Load(decoder *json.Decoder, pluginDir string) error {
 		return err
 	}
 
+	if p.DataFormats == nil {
+		p.DataFormats = []string{"time_series", "table"}
+	}
+
 	Panels[p.Id] = p
 	return nil
 }