Thanks, that's a good idea, as I would automatically assume if a property
supports EL it would work against flowfiles. I see the ticket 3231 was
specific to variable registry and explicitly says not flow files.  Any
particular reason?

On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 12:02 PM, Pierre Villard <
[email protected]> wrote:

> And to add a bit of info on the last remark from Joe, I'm working on
> NIFI-4149 to make the scope of EL clearer to users. Didn't have time to
> work on it lately but will definitely try to get back to it very soon.
>
> Pierre
>
> 2018-01-26 17:14 GMT+01:00 Joe Witt <[email protected]>:
>
> > Stated differently - it considers what it can glean from variables
> > made available other than the flowfile itself.  With Apache NiFi 1.5.0
> > that means process group variables, variables set in nifi.properites,
> > and environment variables.
> >
> > We need to make sure that we call this out when we indicate a given
> > property supports expression language so the user knows the scope at
> > which it will help them.
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 10:44 AM, Marco Gaido <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > > Hi Ryan,
> > >
> > > probably the reason of the behavior is that EL on PutTCP is enabled but
> > it
> > > is not run on the incoming flowfile. So it doesn't care the attributes
> of
> > > your flowfile. It considers only environment variables.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Marco
> > >
> > > 2018-01-26 15:56 GMT+01:00 Ryan Ward <[email protected]>:
> > >
> > >> I'm seeing odd behavior trying to use attributes for the hostname and
> > port
> > >> fields.
> > >>
> > >> using ${endpoint_port} (9003) + hardcoded IP results in flowfile
> > yielding
> > >> failed to process session due to java.lang.NumberFormatException: For
> > >> input
> > >> string: "": {}
> > >> java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: ""
> > >>   at
> > >> java.lang.NumberFormatException.forInputString(
> > >> NumberFormatException.java:65)
> > >>   at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:592)
> > >>   at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:615)
> > >>   at
> > >> org.apache.nifi.attribute.expression.language.StandardPropertyValue.
> > >> asInteger(StandardPropertyValue.java:78)
> > >>
> > >>   at org.apache.nifi.processors.standard.PutTCP.createSender
> > >> (PutTCP.java:111)
> > >>   ...
> > >>   at org.apache.nifi.processors.standard.PutTCP.createSender
> > >> (PutTCP.java:179)
> > >>
> > >> using hardcoded 9003 + ${endpoint} results in flowfile failing due to
> > >> connection refused
> > >> DEBUG ...No available connections, creating a new one...
> > >> ERROR ...No available connections, and unable to create a new one
> ....to
> > >> failure: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
> > >>
> > >> Adding listenTCP to the cluster on 9003 leaving ${endpoint} and
> > hardcoded
> > >> port
> > >> DEBUG...Connected to local port 23250
> > >> DEBUG....Relinquishing sender
> > >> Flow files transferred to success, its unclear where the data went or
> > why I
> > >> needed to have the nodes listening on this port. Is the attribute
> value
> > >> being ignored and defaulting to localhost? Watching this behavior via
> > >> netstat I could see 127.0.0.1 was indeed connected to itself on 9003.
> > Odd
> > >> thing is no data came in on the ListenTCP either.
> > >>
> > >> Thanks,
> > >> Ryan
> > >>
> >
>

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