Matt Burgess created NIFI-11770:
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Summary: Change GenerateRecord to use Data Faker rather than
java-faker
Key: NIFI-11770
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-11770
Project: Apache NiFi
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Extensions
Reporter: Matt Burgess
Fix For: 2.latest
The GenerateRecord processor currently uses the
[java-faker|https://github.com/DiUS/java-faker] library to generate fake data.
This library appears to be no longer maintained (the last commit on the main
branch was 3 years ago).
This Jira proposes to replace this library with [Data
Faker|https://github.com/datafaker-net/datafaker], which is actively maintained
with upgraded dependencies and more categories/types from which to create fake
data. It is a fork of the original java-faker so all existing categories/types
are still supported with the addition of others.
Data Faker 1.x supports Java 8 but is no longer maintained/supported. Data
Faker 2.x requires Java 17+ so this Jira should only apply to the NiFi 2+ lines
which have Java 17 as a minimum.
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