Github user JPercivall commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/642#discussion_r71242383 --- Diff: nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-standard-bundle/nifi-standard-processors/src/main/java/org/apache/nifi/processors/standard/ListDatabaseTables.java --- @@ -211,17 +213,37 @@ public void onTrigger(ProcessContext context, ProcessSession session) throws Pro ? context.getProperty(TABLE_TYPES).getValue().split("\\s*,\\s*") : null; final boolean includeCount = context.getProperty(INCLUDE_COUNT).asBoolean(); + final long refreshInterval = context.getProperty(REFRESH_INTERVAL).asTimePeriod(TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS); final StateManager stateManager = context.getStateManager(); final StateMap stateMap; final Map<String, String> stateMapProperties; try { - stateMap = stateManager.getState(Scope.LOCAL); + stateMap = stateManager.getState(Scope.CLUSTER); stateMapProperties = new HashMap<>(stateMap.toMap()); } catch (IOException ioe) { throw new ProcessException(ioe); } + try { + // Refresh state if the interval has elapsed + long lastRefreshed = -1; + final long currentTime = System.currentTimeMillis(); + String lastTimestamp = stateMapProperties.get(this.getIdentifier()); + if (!StringUtils.isEmpty(lastTimestamp)) { + lastRefreshed = Long.parseLong(lastTimestamp); + } + if (lastRefreshed > 0 && refreshInterval > 0 && currentTime >= (lastRefreshed + refreshInterval)) { + stateManager.clear(Scope.CLUSTER); + stateMapProperties.clear(); --- End diff -- Why clear all the properties at once and not just have an expiration time that applies to each table? Where if you have it set to 5 minutes, the processor will end up reporting the count of the table every minutes (while it still exists). You already store the timestamp under the FQN.
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