Bryan Bende created NIFI-4864:
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Summary: Additional Resources property pointing at a directory
won't find new JARs
Key: NIFI-4864
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-4864
Project: Apache NiFi
Issue Type: Bug
Affects Versions: 1.5.0, 1.4.0, 1.3.0, 1.2.0
Reporter: Bryan Bende
If you have a processor that has a property with
dynamicallyModifiesClasspath(true) and you set the value to a directory, the
resources in that directory will only be calculated when that property changes.
This means if you added JARs to the directory later, and stopped and started
your processor, those new JARs still won't be available. You would have to
change the property to a new directory, or back and forth to some other
directory, to force a recalculation.
The setProperties method in AbstractConfiguredComponent is where it looks at
incoming property changes and determines if any were for classpath related
properties and then calls reload accordingly.
We would need to consider the case where setProperties is never even being
called, someone just stops and starts the processor and would want to pick up
any new JARs added.
A possible solution might be to computer some kind of hash/fingerprint of the
URLs each time reload is called, and then when starting the processor we could
recompute the fingerprint and compare it to the previous one. If they are
different then we call reload before starting the component.
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