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Rob Moran updated NIFI-9336: ---------------------------- Attachment: whitespace-awareness.png > When configuring component properties, UI should flag/make obvious when there > is whitespace > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: NIFI-9336 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-9336 > Project: Apache NiFi > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Core UI > Reporter: Mark Payne > Assignee: M Tien > Priority: Major > Attachments: whitespace-awareness.png > > > It is a very common problem that users will copy & paste values into the > property configuration for a processor/controller service/etc. And this often > results in unwanted white space at the beginning or end of the property value > (especially the end). This can have very confusing results, like indicating > that a hostname cannot be found or that credentials are invalid, etc. but the > issue is not obvious when an error message looks like: > {{No route to host: 1.1.1.1}} > At the same time, we cannot simply have NiFi trim all property values, > because sometimes white space is important. For example, Merge Content allows > a header/footer/demarcator which may well intentionally include whitespace. > While we could add an indicator to Property Descriptors to address this > issue, such as: > {{.trimWhiteSpace(true)}} > it will be easy to forget adding that to the Property Descriptor, and if we > default it to true, it would change behavior of many processors unexpectedly. > Since we cannot trim the values automatically, the UI should flag this when > configuring property values, making it very clear that there is leading or > trailing whitespace. -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.20.1#820001)