Simon Weng created NIFI-7718:
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Summary: create NiFI sub projects to host NiFi REST client in
different languages
Key: NIFI-7718
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-7718
Project: Apache NiFi
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: Tools and Build
Reporter: Simon Weng
We're seeing the need of NiFI REST clients in different languages, such as
Python, Go, etc, so that software can be created to control and manage NiFi
cluster and flows.
Since the RESTful API is documented in OpenAPI spec v2, a client SDK can be
generated via
[openapi-generator|[https://github.com/OpenAPITools/openapi-generator]|https://github.com/OpenAPITools/openapi-generator].]
Individual effort is seen from the community, such as:
* [https://github.com/erdrix/nigoapi]
* [https://github.com/simingweng/nifi-go-client]
* [https://github.com/Chaffelson/nipyapi]
It would be beneficial to the community to consolidate the effort and centrally
maintain the Client SDK effort for everybody to use.
Just like \{{minifi}} being a sub project of NiFi, we can create sub project
for each language binding, such as:
* apache/nifi-client-go
* apache/nifi-client-python
A \{{repo-per-language}} approach is favored for various reasons, take
[https://github.com/kubernetes-client] as sample:
* each language has its idiomatic way to publish and share
* easier for contributor to maintain and release
* each language may require different custom templates, almost certainly
different code generation configurations
* some language has tighter couple with repo and their dependencies
management, like Go
This means higher initial logistic effort to set those sub projects up, but it
can be done gradually.
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