Thanks Andy, how would update attribute be able to get the value from sql?

Consider a flow where a piece of information needs to be obtained from a DB but 
i do not want the contents of the current FF to be altered, using ExecuteSQL 
anywhere prior would not be possible due to replacing the FF contents.

What I had was two seperate flows, one that updates an oauth key in a db 
keeping it fresh, the main flow would then read the db just before an 
invokehttp.

I was originally using a distributed map cache but had concerns that it might 
not be secure and was also advised the cache server has been known to go down.

> On 5 Jan 2018, at 04:01, Joey Frazee <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Andy, Brett,
> 
> Taking a quick glance at the code it looks like it's enriching attributes 
> from a database according to a query.
> 
> If that's correct, there's a LookupAttribute processor that delegates lookups 
> to a "LookupService" and adds attributes without altering content. There are 
> a variety of these LookupServices included. I think what you implemented 
> would make sense as a LookupService and then you could just configure the 
> processor to use that. It could also be used with LookupRecord then too so 
> there'd be a double payoff.
> 
> -joey
> 
>> On Jan 4, 2018, 8:44 AM -0800, Andy LoPresto <[email protected]>, wrote:
>> Hi Brett,
>> 
>> It’s great that you found it easy to write a new processor for Apache NiFi. 
>> It is probably an indicator that we need to improve 
>> education/evangelism/documentation, however, that you did not find 
>> UpdateAttribute [1], which should do exactly what you were looking for.
>> 
>> [1] 
>> https://nifi.apache.org/docs/nifi-docs/components/org.apache.nifi/nifi-update-attribute-nar/1.4.0/org.apache.nifi.processors.attributes.UpdateAttribute/index.html
>> 
>> Andy LoPresto
>> [email protected]
>> [email protected]
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>>> On Jan 4, 2018, at 7:03 AM, Brett Ryan <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi all, having used NiFi for a couple days I wanted to add some attributes 
>>> to a FlowFile while not altering the contents of that FlowFile.
>>> 
>>> I had suggestions to use a script processor but that just sounded like a 
>>> hack which could become a nuisance to replicate.
>>> 
>>> Anyway, I figured I'd write a processor to do this, anyone interested you 
>>> can find it here.
>>> 
>>> https://github.com/brettryan/nifi-drunken-bundle
>>> 
>>> Feel free to do with it what you please.
>>> 
>>> I've published to maven central but it will take a day to appear in the 
>>> search.
>>> 
>>> <dependency>
>>>   <groupId>com.drunkendev</groupId>
>>>   <artifactId>nifi-drunken-nar</artifactId>
>>>   <version>1.0.0</version>
>>>   <type>nar</type>
>>> </dependency>
>>> <dependency>
>>>   <groupId>com.drunkendev</groupId>
>>>   <artifactId>nifi-drunken-processors</artifactId>
>>>   <version>1.0.0</version>
>>> </dependency>
>>> <dependency>
>>>   <groupId>com.drunkendev</groupId>
>>>   <artifactId>nifi-drunken-bundle</artifactId>
>>>   <version>1.0.0</version>
>>>   <type>pom</type>
>>> </dependency>
>>> 
>> 

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