Joe, Thanks for that information. I will start with NetBeans, as I've used it before on some other projects.
On #2, during development and debugging are you running Nifi within the source tree or in a separate target tree where it's been installed from the .tar.gz? Rick -----Original Message----- From: Joe Witt [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2015 10:43 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Getting started developing/debugging Nifi processors Rick These are great and should be turned into a FAQ for developers so they can easily get information on these. Some aspects of these are covered in the developer guide but not clearly or completely. #1 I know folks on the team that use Eclipse, IntelliJ, and Netbeans and probably in that order of popularity. I personally prefer Netbeans because the integration with Maven just flat out works - flawlessly. That is *definitely* a personal preference thing though. #2 You can really easily bind to a running NiFi instance or cause binding to occur as soon as NiFi starts up. This is so you can truly debug a running instance including stepping through code. In the conf/boostrap.conf file check these two lines out: # Enable Remote Debugging #java.arg.debug=-agentlib:jdwp=transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=n,address=8000 By uncommenting that second line you can attach a debugger at runtime to port 8000 and step through the code. Super cool. #3 By far the most efficient way to do this is through effective unit testing. The mock framework makes this work out quite well. Now, it is challenging at times to effectively unit test things which interact with external services. For those cases where you truly must update the version of nars in an actual instance of NiFi you may want to just script out commands to copy over the old nar and restart nifi. Thanks Joe On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 1:34 PM, Rick Braddy <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > The Nifi Developer's Guide is a great read with lots of useful information. > However, as a relative noob to Nifi development, I still have a few questions > that seemed unanswered (or perhaps I overlooked): > > > 1. Recommended IDE for Nifi - given Nifi development involves both Java > and Maven, is there a recommended or preferred IDE (e.g., NetBeans vs. > Eclipse - other?) that's considered better? I realize this is also probably > personal preference, but would like to know what the core Nifi team uses and > recommends for debugging, both local and remote Nifi instances. > > > 2. Debugging mode - given Nifi often runs as a Linux service, for > debugging are you typically attaching to one or more running processes or > launching Nifi separately to debug it? If attaching, what does one attach > to, given many running java processes come and go? > > > 3. Processor development vs. NAR packaging - when developing and > debugging, given the run-time Nifi is installed in a different directory tree > vs. the source tree, what is the most productive approach to inline > development and debugging (vs. making changes, packaging and then installing > NAR package into run-time area? > > Is there any documentation or blog posts covering the above? (Google > and I didn't find it) > > Thanks in advance. > Rick >
