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Jeremy Dyer commented on NIFI-4332:
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[~bbende] I think you and I are thinking close along the same line here. Slight
difference I was thinking, beyond having just the nifi-client-dto, to have a
small implementation that also already had the HTTP library implemented as
well. Maybe thinking of this more like a service implementation? So users could
simple invoke a single method and receive a response without having the program
all of the HTTP interactions.
As for the shell part I'm really impartial about how it is implemented but do
agree that having multiple languages would be a burden. I think at a minimum
some sort of shell wrapper as you linked above which in turn called this
"client' would be handy to even further save users from even having to write
code to interact with the client.
> Add NiFi Shell for interacting with NiFi REST API
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> Key: NIFI-4332
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-4332
> Project: Apache NiFi
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Jeremy Dyer
> Assignee: Jeremy Dyer
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> There are several permutations of nifi shells floating around on Github. The
> fact that so many of these exists tells me its a feature people want. I
> propose we add a NiFi shell to the official project that people can use for
> official interaction with the NiFi REST API. While shells are typically not
> written in Java I feel quite strongly in our case using Java would be the
> best fit. Using Java would allow us to use reflection on the "nifi-web-api"
> layer to reflected expected types, paths, responses, etc with minimal coding
> effort.
> I expect there will be many more features that can be added to this shell but
> as a minimal starting point the shell should allow an end user to interact
> with all of the NiFi REST API endpoints defined at
> https://nifi.apache.org/docs/nifi-docs/rest-api/index.html
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