Ooo, i shall take a look at this, that sounds great. Yeah, my inexperience is probably a sore point. You know what would be great, either in the add processor browser to have categories to find processors. Trying to find enrichment processors only is probably the hardest part of identifying the right processor.
Where I’m working they’re on nifi 1.1 and iirc they had > 200 processors. It’s also possible that newer processors are available in newer versions. > 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] >> PGP Fingerprint: 70EC B3E5 98A6 5A3F D3C4 BACE 3C6E F65B 2F7D EF69 >> >>> 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> >>> >>
