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Dan Bress commented on NIFI-309:
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Honestly, when I started this I did not want to use annotations to accomplish
it, because all the information I need is sort-of-kind-of in:
{{protected PropertyDescriptor getSupportedDynamicPropertyDescriptor(final
String propertyDescriptorName)}}
However, these properties are dynamically generated based on the property name
the user passes in, so you can't ask a {{ConfigurableComponent}} to give you
all of its dynamic properties. Mark gave me an explanation as to why this is,
I think to support different kinds of dynamic properties based on the property
name? Mark?
When I was putting these annotations on yesterday, the closest thing I saw to
this use case was {{PutFTP}}. Maybe I missed it or didn't understand it in the
first place.
> Support additional documentation annotations
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>
> Key: NIFI-309
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-309
> Project: Apache NiFi
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Core Framework, Documentation & Website
> Affects Versions: 0.0.1
> Reporter: Dan Bress
> Assignee: Dan Bress
> Priority: Trivial
>
> Additional documentation only annotations should be added to better describe
> ConfigurableComponents. These annotations are:
> DynamicProperties - this would indicate whether a component supports dynamic
> properties or not, and provides a description. This could be used by the UI
> to determine whether or not to allow dynamic properties. It could also be
> reflected in the documentation.
> DynamicRelationships - this would indicate whether a component has dynamic
> relationships, like RouteOnAttribute and DistributeLoad do. This could be
> reflected in the documentation.
> ReadsAttribute - indicates what attributes a Processor reads certain FlowFile
> attributes on incoming FlowFiles. This would be reflected in the
> documentation.
> WritesAttribute - indicates what attributes a Processor creates on outgoing
> FlowFile attributes. This would be reflected in the documentation.
> SeeAlso - Provides a mechanism to link one configurable component to another.
> E.g. PutFile & GetFile. This would be used in the documentation.
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