Hi Joe, But if I have multiple threads running for that processor, won’t each instance have its own copy of that member variable?
Thanks, Phil On Mon, 9 Dec 2019 at 12:41, Joe Witt <joe.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > Phil > > You can have a class member variable and just protect access to it. This > is quite common in many processors. > > Thanks > > On Sun, Dec 8, 2019 at 7:30 PM Phil H <gippyp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > > I have a custom processor that I want to contain some shared data across > > threads (this data is based on analysis of flow files, so constantly > > changing). I can’t use a static variable though, because I use the same > > processor more than once within my flow in different contexts. If there > > isn’t a “proper” way to do this in the NiFi API, is there a way to > > programmatically access the componentID (as shown in the UI) so I could > use > > that as a key to a Map containing the data? > > > > Thanks, > > Phil > > >