In my use case I need to use the validation results later in the flow to
generate an error response. Currently the validation results are aggregated
and formed into a description on the provenance event. This doesn't help me
unfortunately.

-eric

On Tue., Jul. 7, 2020, 7:39 p.m. Matt Burgess, <[email protected]> wrote:

> This is probably better suited for the dev list (not sure if you're
> subscribed but please do, BCC'ing users and moving to dev), but the
> implementations (components and their NARs) are not designed to be
> subclassed for custom extensions outside the codebase, can you
> describe your use case (and custom processor)? If there's a common
> reusable interface we can talk about moving it to an API NAR and such,
> but I believe in general the guidance is to do the copy/paste if you
> need code from the existing components in the codebase.
>
> Regards,
> Matt
>
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 10:14 PM Eric Secules <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I was wondering if there was a recommendation on how to extend the
> functionality of nifi processors without forking the nifi repository. I'm
> looking for a way to include a processor's nar in my project and extend
> from it. I'd also like to be able to extend that processor's test suite so
> I can leverage that. The "solution" I found (if you can call it that) was
> to copy the code from Validate record.java into a new class and make the
> changes I wanted to.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Eric
>

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