Andy LoPresto created NIFI-3766:
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Summary: Improve user experience when migrating from legacy
provenance repository to encrypted
Key: NIFI-3766
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-3766
Project: Apache NiFi
Issue Type: Sub-task
Components: Core Framework
Reporter: Andy LoPresto
Assignee: Andy LoPresto
As reported during a review of NIFI-3594 / PR 1686, [~YolandaMDavis] was able
to generate some unhelpful stacktraces and UI error dialogs when switching from
{{PersistentProvenanceRepository}} (the legacy implementation that most users
have selected) to the new {{EncryptedWriteAheadProvenanceRepository}}. I had
only tested {{WriteAheadProvenanceRepository}} to and from
{{EncryptedWriteAheadProvenanceRepository}}.
In addition, switching between {{EWAPR}} and {{WAPR}} causes a small exception
but the application functions as expected with the exception that previously
written provenance events are no longer available. However, when switching from
{{PPR}} to {{EWAPR}}, new provenance events are not written or queryable. This
is obviously untenable moving forward.
For now, documentation has been provided explaining that existing repositories
must be deleted from disk before switching implementations to allow continued
indexing and querying under the new implementation.
The user experience should be improved to suppress the stacktrace and error
dialogs and smoothly handle the migration.
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