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ASF GitHub Bot commented on NIFI-4149:
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Github user joewitt commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/2205#discussion_r145028535
--- Diff:
nifi-api/src/main/java/org/apache/nifi/expression/ExpressionLanguageScope.java
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+package org.apache.nifi.expression;
+
+/**
+ * Indicates the scope of expression language on a property descriptor
+ */
+public enum ExpressionLanguageScope {
+
+ /**
+ * Expression language is disabled
+ */
+ NONE,
+
+ /**
+ * Expression language is evaluated against variables in registry
+ */
+ VARIABLE_REGISTRY_ONLY,
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probably makes sense to just name the scope as 'VARIABLE_REGISTRY'
> Indicate if EL is evaluated against FFs or not
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> Key: NIFI-4149
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-4149
> Project: Apache NiFi
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Core Framework
> Reporter: Pierre Villard
> Assignee: Pierre Villard
>
> With the addition of EL in a lot of places to improve SDLC and workflow
> staging, it becomes important to indicate to users if the expression language
> enabled on a property will be evaluated against the attributes of incoming
> flow files or if it will only be evaluated against various variable stores
> (env variables, variable registry, etc).
> Actually, the expression language (without evaluation against flow files)
> could be allowed on any property by default, and evaluation against flow
> files would be what is actually indicated in the UI as we are doing today.
> Adopting this approach could solve a lot of JIRA/PRs we are seeing to add EL
> on some specific properties (without evaluation against FFs).
> Having expression language to access external values could make sense on any
> property for any user. However evaluating the expression language against FFs
> is clearly a more complex challenge when it comes to session management and
> such.
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