Matt,
I experimented with the Open in New Window button, but the new window,
which probably isn't an iframe, nevertheless doesn't respond to attempts
to get around the cache.
You're probably right about the version not changing being at the root
of the browser's inability to respond to a change. Sadly, the
edit-display-debug-edit cycle doesn't excite me into changing versions
just so I can see the result.
I'm certainly not going to clamor for work to be done to get around
this. It's annoying, but not crippling.
Thanks,
Russ
On 8/17/23 13:54, Matt Gilman wrote:
Russell,
Thanks for the response. The suggestion to open a new tab was for the
generated documentation, not the NiFi canvas itself. The generated
documentation is shown in an iframe which will offer you the menu item in
the context menu for opening in a new tab. IIRC correctly, the path to the
generated documentation contains the version of the component. For folks
simply using a released version of NiFi this works great since versions
will differ and any browser caching will only optimize page loading for the
user. If you're a developer, however, you're likely making changes to your
component and the version is not changing (x.y.z-SNAPSHOT). This is where
the browser cache could result in the behavior your seeing.
Matt
On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 3:21 PM Russell Bateman<r...@windofkeltia.com>
wrote:
Thanks, Matt,
(Since I use Chrome 99% of the time, I'm using Chrome here.)
Clicking on the reload control next to the address bar, while holding
down Shift, reloads the canvas, but the NiFi Documentation page
disappears and I have to reload it using the View usage context menu of
my processor. Once reloaded, nothing has changed.
This is also the behavior of the Configure Processor dialog. As I reload
View usage, ...
In Chrome, there's no effective content-menu option to right-click in
the page contents and open in a new tab. I can...
Back
Forward
Reload
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Save As...
Print
Cast
Search images with Google
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Send to your devices
Create QR code for this page
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Translate
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View page source
View frame source
Reload frame
Inspect
If I right-click the current tab itself, I'm able to choose to
Duplicate., but that doesn't seem to lead to anything more helpful.
By the way, I'm doing this using NiFi 1.23.0. I have also verified the
date of my NAR to ensure that I'm not repeatedly working using a NAR
with old content. Also, the version displayed for the custom processor
is that of the various /pom.xml/ files I'm building with.
I usually develop on the latest NiFi version. However, my company has
NARs that won't load beginning 1.14.0. I just brought up 1.13.2, what
most of our customers run, and tried my latest NAR which *does* display
my changes.Same with 1.1.2, which represents the oldest platform
executing at any custom site. Exceptionally, I set up 1.19.1 where it
*also works*.
This is unexpected; maybe it does point, as unlikely as it seems, to
something changed in 1.23.0 (instead of being caused by anything between
the dossier of my chair and the space bar of my keyboard as I have been
expecting to learn. ;-) )
It could still be me and I'm just not seeing the obvious yet.
On 8/17/23 12:44, Matt Gilman wrote:
Russell,
Assuming this is a browser cache issue, can you try right-clicking
anywhere
in the page contents of the generated documentation and open it in a new
tab. Once that is open, can you try doing a hard refresh by holding Shift
while clicking Reload next to the address bar? This should clear the
cache
and fetch the updated generated documentation. At this point, you should
be
able to close that tab and retry from the NiFi UI.
Let us know if this doesn't help and we can see if something isn't
getting
generated and updated correctly.
Matt
On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 2:38 PM Russell Bateman<r...@windofkeltia.com>
wrote:
Seems like a really stupid user/browser question, but I cannot seem to
get changes I've made to properties, relationships, attributes read or
written, etc. *for custom processors*. Also, from the Properties tab in
Configuring Processor, the cartoon blurbs obtained by hovering over (?)
aren't updated either.
This is despite that changes I make to my /additionalDetails.html/ files
come through with no problem.
I have tried Chrome, Opera, Brave and Firefox. All [mis]behave
identically.
I have tried killing the browser running the NiFi UI, stopping also the
NiFi instance, relaunching NiFi, quickly asking the browser to display
the canvas, then holding down the Ctrl key as I click Reload.
In past times, I have observed that eventually the changes are
recognized and displayed, so this is not permanent, however, it's very
annoying especially when I'm polishing my processor documentation
wording in the class that extends AbstractProcessor. All the while, as I
say, the processor's corresponding /additionalDetails.html/ displays
changes I make to it in a timely and accurate fashion.
Suggestions?
