Github user patricker commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/1478 @joewitt @pvillard31 I made the changes and squashed the commits since about 50% of my changes were basically rolled back to the original code. One issue... it doesn't work anymore. I'm looking for a little guidance on what I might have missed (of course since there is no functional change maybe it never worked and I was testing with an old build?). The error makes it sound like it's a standard, 'can't find your class' error. Since the code all lives in the same JAR I added a resource file to register the interface and class (it's in the commit), which made no difference. Here is the stack trace I'm getting: > Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'flowService': FactoryBean threw exception on object creation; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'flowController': FactoryBean threw exception on object creation; nested exception is java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to create Flow Configuration DAO at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.FactoryBeanRegistrySupport.doGetObjectFromFactoryBean(FactoryBeanRegistrySupport.java:175) ~[spring-beans-4.2.4.RELEASE.jar:4.2.4.RELEASE] at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.FactoryBeanRegistrySupport.getObjectFromFactoryBean(FactoryBeanRegistrySupport.java:103) ~[spring-beans-4.2.4.RELEASE.jar:4.2.4.RELEASE] at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getObjectForBeanInstance(AbstractBeanFactory.java:1585) ~[spring-beans-4.2.4.RELEASE.jar:4.2.4.RELEASE] at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:317) ~[spring-beans-4.2.4.RELEASE.jar:4.2.4.RELEASE] at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:202) ~[spring-beans-4.2.4.RELEASE.jar:4.2.4.RELEASE] at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.getBean(AbstractApplicationContext.java:1060) ~[spring-context-4.2.4.RELEASE.jar:4.2.4.RELEASE] at org.apache.nifi.web.contextlistener.ApplicationStartupContextListener.contextInitialized(ApplicationStartupContextListener.java:53) ~[na:na] ... 28 common frames omitted Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'flowController': FactoryBean threw exception on object creation; nested exception is java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to create Flow Configuration DAO at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.FactoryBeanRegistrySupport.doGetObjectFromFactoryBean(FactoryBeanRegistrySupport.java:175) ~[spring-beans-4.2.4.RELEASE.jar:4.2.4.RELEASE] at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.FactoryBeanRegistrySupport.getObjectFromFactoryBean(FactoryBeanRegistrySupport.java:103) ~[spring-beans-4.2.4.RELEASE.jar:4.2.4.RELEASE] at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getObjectForBeanInstance(AbstractBeanFactory.java:1585) ~[spring-beans-4.2.4.RELEASE.jar:4.2.4.RELEASE] at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:317) ~[spring-beans-4.2.4.RELEASE.jar:4.2.4.RELEASE] at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:202) ~[spring-beans-4.2.4.RELEASE.jar:4.2.4.RELEASE] at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.getBean(AbstractApplicationContext.java:1060) ~[spring-context-4.2.4.RELEASE.jar:4.2.4.RELEASE] at org.apache.nifi.spring.StandardFlowServiceFactoryBean.getObject(StandardFlowServiceFactoryBean.java:48) ~[nifi-framework-core-1.2.0-SNAPSHOT.jar:1.2.0-SNAPSHOT] at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.FactoryBeanRegistrySupport.doGetObjectFromFactoryBean(FactoryBeanRegistrySupport.java:168) ~[spring-beans-4.2.4.RELEASE.jar:4.2.4.RELEASE] ... 34 common frames omitted Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to create Flow Configuration DAO at org.apache.nifi.controller.FlowController.<init>(FlowController.java:480) ~[nifi-framework-core-1.2.0-SNAPSHOT.jar:1.2.0-SNAPSHOT] at org.apache.nifi.controller.FlowController.createStandaloneInstance(FlowController.java:378) ~[nifi-framework-core-1.2.0-SNAPSHOT.jar:1.2.0-SNAPSHOT] at org.apache.nifi.spring.FlowControllerFactoryBean.getObject(FlowControllerFactoryBean.java:74) ~[nifi-framework-core-1.2.0-SNAPSHOT.jar:1.2.0-SNAPSHOT] at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.FactoryBeanRegistrySupport.doGetObjectFromFactoryBean(FactoryBeanRegistrySupport.java:168) ~[spring-beans-4.2.4.RELEASE.jar:4.2.4.RELEASE] ... 41 common frames omitted Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.nifi.persistence.StandardXMLFlowConfigurationDAO at org.apache.nifi.controller.FlowController.createFlowConfigurationDAO(FlowController.java:851) ~[nifi-framework-core-1.2.0-SNAPSHOT.jar:1.2.0-SNAPSHOT] at org.apache.nifi.controller.FlowController.<init>(FlowController.java:478) ~[nifi-framework-core-1.2.0-SNAPSHOT.jar:1.2.0-SNAPSHOT] ... 44 common frames omitted Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.nifi.persistence.StandardXMLFlowConfigurationDAO at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:381) ~[na:1.8.0_91] at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424) ~[na:1.8.0_91] at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:331) ~[na:1.8.0_91] at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357) ~[na:1.8.0_91] at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) ~[na:1.8.0_91] at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:264) ~[na:1.8.0_91] at org.apache.nifi.nar.NarThreadContextClassLoader.createInstance(NarThreadContextClassLoader.java:194) ~[nifi-nar-utils-1.2.0-SNAPSHOT.jar:1.2.0-SNAPSHOT] at org.apache.nifi.controller.FlowController.createFlowConfigurationDAO(FlowController.java:845) ~[nifi-framework-core-1.2.0-SNAPSHOT.jar:1.2.0-SNAPSHOT] ... 45 common frames omitted
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