Bahlul, You can access parameter contexts via the NiFi REST API. See /parameter-contexts under the Controller in the API documentation.
http://nifi.apache.org/docs.html -Mark On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 1:12 PM Bahlul Haider <bahlulhai...@gmail.com> wrote: > Friendly Monday morning ping. > > I am looking for a way to programmatically setting/updating parameters in > newly created nifi cluster. > > Thanks, > Bahlul > > On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 1:28 PM Bahlul Haider <bahlulhai...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hey Bryan, > > > > I was able to manually add parameters in a flow and was able to use them. > > However I did not find a way to programmatically create the parameter > > context values in new nifi cluster. Any help regarding this is greatly > > appreciated. > > > > Happy Friday :-) > > > > Thanks, > > Bahlul > > > > On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 4:57 PM Bahlul Haider <bahlulhai...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > >> Thank you very much Bryan for your quick reply. > >> > >> I actually started with 1.10.0. But when I tried to pass variables to > the > >> flow using nifi CLI I was getting an error (see my comments in NIFI > >> 6814: Nifi REST api returns incompatible date format for NiFi Client DTO > >> < > https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/NIFI/issues/NIFI-6860?filter=allopenissues > >). > >> The regression was later fixed. > >> > >> I will try parameters in 1.10. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Bahlul > >> > >> On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 11:10 AM Bryan Bende <bbe...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >>> Hello, > >>> > >>> If you can use the latest 1.10.0 release there is a new feature called > >>> parameters that will greatly help with this. > >>> > >>> You can use a new syntax #{my.secret} which will remain in the flow > >>> when saved to registry. > >>> > >>> Then you can use CLI commands for setting the value of the parameter > >>> named "my.secret". > >>> > >>> Thanks, > >>> > >>> Bryan > >>> > >>> On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 2:04 PM Bahlul Haider <bahlulhai...@gmail.com> > >>> wrote: > >>> > > >>> > Hello, > >>> > > >>> > I am working on automatically starting a flow from registry in newly > >>> > created nfi clusters. To start the flow, I need to provide some > secret > >>> > values to some of the processors. What is the recommended way of > >>> > programmatically provide secret of a processor? > >>> > > >>> > So far, I have tried NiFi CLI to pass secrets as variables to NiFi > >>> (e.g., > >>> > {secretName, secretValue}) and reference ${secretName} in the > >>> processor (I > >>> > am aware that NiFi does yet support encryption for secrets in > >>> variables). > >>> > However, I am unable to create a new version of the flow (from the > >>> browser) > >>> > in the registry with ${secretName} as the property value (NiFi thinks > >>> it is > >>> > a secret and does not include it in the new version). I was hoping > that > >>> > NiFi CLI have a way to update flow in registry with ${secretName} as > >>> secret > >>> > value. However, I did not find a way to to do it. > >>> > > >>> > I am a newbie to nifi. Any help regarding this is greatly > appreciated. > >>> I > >>> > have seen there are several similar open issues in nifi. I am willing > >>> to > >>> > work on those issues if my scenario is not supported. > >>> > > >>> > Thanks, > >>> > Bahlul > >>> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Thanks, > >> Bahlul > >> > >> > > > > -- > > Thanks, > > Bahlul > > > > > > -- > Thanks, > Bahlul >
