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Otto Fowler commented on NIFI-7781:
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As per the comment this is intentional and by design.
> Bad nar crashes Jira
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>
> Key: NIFI-7781
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-7781
> Project: Apache NiFi
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Extensions
> Affects Versions: 1.11.4
> Environment: Linux
> Reporter: Joseph Kesselman
> Priority: Major
> Labels: exception-handling
> Original Estimate: 24h
> Remaining Estimate: 24h
>
> No matter what's broken about it, a bad nar should not be able to keep the
> rest of NiFi from running. Catch and handle this exception. And preferably
> give us more information about what the problem was than "unable to load" –
> was file not found, not a valid nar, in conflict with other classes, written
> on a Thursday...
>
> 2020-08-31 23:58:20,960 ERROR [main] -> org.apache.nifi.NiFi -> Failure to
> launch NiFi due to java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unable to load NAR with co
> java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unable to load NAR with coordinates
> com.ibm.rtwa:nifi-random-nar:1.0-SNAPSHOT and working directory
> ./work/nar/extension
> at org.apache.nifi.nar.NarClassLoaders.load(NarClassLoaders.java:181)
> at org.apache.nifi.nar.NarClassLoaders.init(NarClassLoaders.java:119)
> at org.apache.nifi.NiFi.<init>(NiFi.java:134)
> at org.apache.nifi.NiFi.<init>(NiFi.java:72)
> at org.apache.nifi.NiFi.main(NiFi.java:301)
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