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ASF GitHub Bot commented on NIFI-1661:
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Github user ckmcd closed the pull request at:

    https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/322


> 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
>            Assignee: Joe Skora
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 1.0.0, 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)}/



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