Repository: nifi Updated Branches: refs/heads/master 4e5026358 -> a0224f1b4
NIFI-1431: Added documentation about how ETag and LastModified dates are used by the Processor Signed-off-by: Matt Gilman <[email protected]> Project: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/nifi/repo Commit: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/nifi/commit/a0224f1b Tree: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/nifi/tree/a0224f1b Diff: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/nifi/diff/a0224f1b Branch: refs/heads/master Commit: a0224f1b4c3a8ee737f91d70b5d8b2cb9a1a1f1c Parents: 4e50263 Author: Mark Payne <[email protected]> Authored: Thu Jan 28 15:24:55 2016 -0500 Committer: Matt Gilman <[email protected]> Committed: Thu Jan 28 16:02:05 2016 -0500 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- .../main/java/org/apache/nifi/processors/standard/GetHTTP.java | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/nifi/blob/a0224f1b/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-standard-bundle/nifi-standard-processors/src/main/java/org/apache/nifi/processors/standard/GetHTTP.java ---------------------------------------------------------------------- diff --git a/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-standard-bundle/nifi-standard-processors/src/main/java/org/apache/nifi/processors/standard/GetHTTP.java b/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-standard-bundle/nifi-standard-processors/src/main/java/org/apache/nifi/processors/standard/GetHTTP.java index 5eab704..079f256 100644 --- a/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-standard-bundle/nifi-standard-processors/src/main/java/org/apache/nifi/processors/standard/GetHTTP.java +++ b/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-standard-bundle/nifi-standard-processors/src/main/java/org/apache/nifi/processors/standard/GetHTTP.java @@ -99,7 +99,9 @@ import org.apache.nifi.util.StopWatch; @Tags({"get", "fetch", "poll", "http", "https", "ingest", "source", "input"}) @InputRequirement(Requirement.INPUT_FORBIDDEN) -@CapabilityDescription("Fetches a file via HTTP") +@CapabilityDescription("Fetches data from an HTTP or HTTPS URL and writes the data to the content of a FlowFile. Once the content has been fetched, the ETag and Last Modified " + + "dates are remembered (if the web server supports these concepts). This allows the Processor to fetch new data only if the remote data has changed. That is, once the " + + "content has been fetched from the given URL, it will not be fetched again until the content on the remote server changes.") @WritesAttributes({ @WritesAttribute(attribute = "filename", description = "The filename is set to the name of the file on the remote server"), @WritesAttribute(attribute = "mime.type", description = "The MIME Type of the FlowFile, as reported by the HTTP Content-Type header")
