Uwe Can you show a screenshot of your processor on the graph perhaps?
All components/extension points of NiFi should have their documentation auto generated on startup. This will cause things like tooltips, usage description, and the help guide to have a section for it. Can you clarify which version of NiFi you're using? Thanks Joe On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 6:59 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Uwe, > > ok, now I understand. > Haven't recognized that yet. > > You are right. There is no help text for any own written processor. > I also found created directories for all of our processors with a valid > index.html file but the content isn't shown on the help page. > > @devs > Is this normal behaviour that there are no help informations for own > written processor on the NiFi Help (menu -> right side drop down -> Help)? > > Best Regards, > Uwe > > Am 24.02.2017 um 12:35 schrieb Uwe Geercken: >> Uwe, >> >> wenn man in Nifi die Help aufruft, dann erscheinen alle Hilfstexte für die >> Prozessoren. Nifi genriert diese beim Start im Ordner work/docs/components. >> Auch für meine Prozessoren werden html seite genriert, aber ich kann die >> Hilfstexte norgendwo finden. >> >> Irgendwo muss ichen Fehler machen. >> >> Gruss, >> >> Uwe >> >>> Gesendet: Freitag, 24. Februar 2017 um 12:29 Uhr >>> Von: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >>> An: [email protected] >>> Betreff: Re: Nifi processor documentation not showing up in Help >>> >>> Hi Uwe, >>> >>> It's not really clear to me what exactly is your problem but maybe I can >>> help you?! >>> Send me a direct mail so we can talk in german ;-) >>> >>> Best Regards, >>> Uwe >>> >>> Am 24.02.2017 um 11:19 schrieb Uwe Geercken: >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> I am developing some processors for Nifi. They do work in 1.1 but the >>>> documentation does not show up in the Help. >>>> >>>> So I set the loglevel to DEBUG and this is what came out: >>>> >>>> 2017-02-24 11:00:18,538 DEBUG [main] org.apache.nifi.nar.NarUnpacker >>>> Expanding NAR file: >>>> /opt/nifi-1.1.1/./lib/com.datamelt.nifi.processors-1.0.0.nar >>>> 2017-02-24 11:00:56,328 DEBUG [main] org.apache.nifi.nar.NarClassLoaders >>>> Loading NAR file: >>>> /opt/nifi-1.1.1/./work/nar/extensions/com.datamelt.nifi.processors-1.0.0.nar-unpacked >>>> 2017-02-24 11:00:56,330 INFO [main] org.apache.nifi.nar.NarClassLoaders >>>> Loaded NAR file: >>>> /opt/nifi-1.1.1/./work/nar/extensions/com.datamelt.nifi.processors-1.0.0.nar-unpacked >>>> as class loader >>>> org.apache.nifi.nar.NarClassLoader[./work/nar/extensions/com.datamelt.nifi.processors-1.0.0.nar-unpacked] >>>> com.datamelt.nifi.processors.MergeTemplate || >>>> org.apache.nifi.nar.NarClassLoader[./work/nar/extensions/com.datamelt.nifi.processors-1.0.0.nar-unpacked] >>>> com.datamelt.nifi.processors.GenerateData || >>>> org.apache.nifi.nar.NarClassLoader[./work/nar/extensions/com.datamelt.nifi.processors-1.0.0.nar-unpacked] >>>> com.datamelt.nifi.processors.SplitToAttribute || >>>> org.apache.nifi.nar.NarClassLoader[./work/nar/extensions/com.datamelt.nifi.processors-1.0.0.nar-unpacked] >>>> com.datamelt.nifi.processors.RuleEngine || >>>> org.apache.nifi.nar.NarClassLoader[./work/nar/extensions/com.datamelt.nifi.processors-1.0.0.nar-unpacked] >>>> 2017-02-24 11:00:59,992 DEBUG [main] >>>> o.apache.nifi.documentation.DocGenerator Documenting: class >>>> com.datamelt.nifi.processors.MergeTemplate >>>> 2017-02-24 11:01:00,226 DEBUG [main] >>>> o.apache.nifi.documentation.DocGenerator Documenting: class >>>> com.datamelt.nifi.processors.GenerateData >>>> 2017-02-24 11:01:00,251 DEBUG [main] >>>> o.apache.nifi.documentation.DocGenerator Documenting: class >>>> com.datamelt.nifi.processors.SplitToAttribute >>>> 2017-02-24 11:01:00,367 DEBUG [main] >>>> o.apache.nifi.documentation.DocGenerator Documenting: class >>>> com.datamelt.nifi.processors.RuleEngine >>>> >>>> I see that the appropraite html files are generated in folder >>>> work/docs/compoments. Here is the folder list and each of the folders >>>> contains an index.html file: >>>> >>>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 24. Feb 11:01 >>>> com.datamelt.nifi.processors.GenerateData >>>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 24. Feb 11:00 >>>> com.datamelt.nifi.processors.MergeTemplate >>>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 24. Feb 11:01 >>>> com.datamelt.nifi.processors.RuleEngine >>>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 24. Feb 11:01 >>>> com.datamelt.nifi.processors.SplitToAttribute >>>> >>>> So what am I doing wrong? Can somebody help? >>>> >>>> Rgds, >>>> >>>> Uwe >>> >>> >
