In Park created NIFI-9033:
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             Summary: Define Validators and Default Values for 
NifiStatelessConnectors 
                 Key: NIFI-9033
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-9033
             Project: Apache NiFi
          Issue Type: Bug
            Reporter: In Park


Nifi Stateless Kafka Connectors' dataflow name config ("name") is colliding 
with Kafka Connector's base "name" config:
[https://github.com/apache/nifi/blob/6df07df3b2d2dbabeb279ac749ed45c37efd5d01/nifi-external/nifi-kafka-connect/nifi-kafka-connector/src/main/java/org/apache/nifi/kafka/connect/StatelessKafkaConnectorUtil.java#L99]

Kafka Connector base "name" config has a validator while the NifiConnector's 
"name" config doesn't, and this NifiConnector's validator (which is null) is 
overriding the Kafka Connector's "name" validator, therefore config validation 
gives a false positive.

The DATAFLOW_NAME config definition should be changed to something like the 
following which includes a valid default value along with a correct validator.
{code:java}
        configDef.define(DATAFLOW_NAME, ConfigDef.Type.STRING, 
ConfigDef.NO_DEFAULT_VALUE, nonEmptyStringWithoutControlChars(), 
ConfigDef.Importance.HIGH, "The name of the dataflow.");{code}



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