Pierre Villard created NIP-16:
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Summary: Parameter Tags
Key: NIP-16
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIP-16
Project: NiFi Improvement Proposal
Issue Type: Improvement
Reporter: Pierre Villard
This NIP is for adding support for Parameter Tags.
Most parameter providers that we have in NiFi are talking to systems that
implement the option to define tags that are just key/value pairs of strings.
Having this information available with the parameters could be used by NiFi to
inform some decisions such as deciding if a parameter is sensitive or not.
At the moment, when we fetch parameters in the UI for a given parameter
provider, the user has to decide which parameters are sensitive and which are
not. There could be the option of defaulting everything to sensitive unless a
specific tag has been set. In that case a parameter could be considered as non
sensitive if and only if an expected tag has been set on the parameter in the
external provider. This also increases the security when there is a separation
of duties between the NiFi admin and whoever is in charge of the corresponding
secrets.
While this improvement would not change anything in the way NiFi is working
with external parameters as of today, this could be used by the upcoming
connectors concept to automatically decide if a value is sensitive or not
without leaving this up to the user.
The change is fairly limited and straightforward:
* introduce public class ParameterTag in org.apache.nifi.parameter that is
just with two strings key and value
* update the class Parameter to have a List<ParameterTag> tags
The idea of adding a new class instead of just a Map<String, String> is to have
something more flexible in the future in case we would retain more information.
There is no breaking change nor behavioural change as part of this proposal.
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