Alan Jackoway created NIFI-751:
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Summary: Add Processor To Convert Avro Formats
Key: NIFI-751
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-751
Project: Apache NiFi
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Extensions
Affects Versions: 0.1.0
Reporter: Alan Jackoway
When working with data from external sources, such as complex WSDL, I
frequently wind up with complex nested data that is difficult to work with even
when converted to Avro format. Specifically, I often have two needs:
* Converting types of data, usually from string to long, double, etc. when APIs
give only string data back.
* Flattening data by taking fields out of nested records and putting them on
the top level of the Avro file.
Unfortunately the Kite JSONToAvro processor only supports exact conversions
from JSON to a matching Avro schema and will not do data transformations of
this type. Proposed processor to come.
Discussed this with [~rdblue], so tagging him here as I don't have permission
to set a CC for some reason.
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