[GitHub] nifi issue #2259: NIFI-4588 Added the ability to use update operators like a...

[MikeThomsen]

Github user MikeThomsen commented on the issue:

    https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/2259
  
    Thanks!
    
    1. We can't because "$" is an illegal starting character in Avro. That's 
why I was grumbling about "$date" operations on the mailing list. Fortunately, 
for simple puts there is a good work around.
    
    2. Yeah, we could. I think that would need to support EL too.


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