Joseph Percivall created NIFI-2069:
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Summary: Add option to UI to enter interpreted vs literal text
Key: NIFI-2069
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-2069
Project: Apache NiFi
Issue Type: Improvement
Reporter: Joseph Percivall
Attachments: mock-up.png
In adding the PutTCP processor there has been some debate over accepting "\n"
as the literal characters "\" and "n" vs the character for a new line.
Currently the UI will pass the literal values and it's on the processor to
decide what to do with them. Leading to multiple processors to interpret "\n",
"\t" or "\r" entered in the UI as a new line, tab and carriage return
respectively.
It is reasonable for a user to want enter "\n" as a new line but it is also not
correct to be inconsistent in how the user enters values throughout the UI.
When entering a string in the UI there should be a second checkbox (next to
"Empty") for "Interpreted" (name subject to change). This would allow users to
select whether the values the enter are interpreted ("\n" -> new line
character) vs literals ("\n" -> "\" and "\n"). Also this should allow for the
support for entering unicode characters.
In order to keep backwards compatibility the default would be not interpreted.
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