[
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-1661?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=15226692#comment-15226692
]
Joseph Witt commented on NIFI-1661:
-----------------------------------
Looks nicely done and thoughtful to include the docs edits needed. I'd need to
read up on RNG to make sure we're doing that optimally but if anyone else can
do a quick check there in the mean time that would be great. Certainly looks
like a good candidate for 0.7.0 inclusion so updated version.
Thanks Chris!
> Expression language should support a random function
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: NIFI-1661
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-1661
> Project: Apache NiFi
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Christopher McDermott
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 0.7.0
>
>
> Random would be a subjectless function that generates a 32? bit random
> number. The random number generator need not be cryptographically secure.
> A use case would be for random be to generate a random pattern across some
> number of file paths to be used with putFile.
> Example - puts files randomly to /my-dirs/dir-1, /my-dirs/dir-2,
> /my-dirs/dir-3
> /my-dirs/dir-${random():mod(3):plus(1)}/
--
This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA
(v6.3.4#6332)
