Github user MikeThomsen commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/2478#discussion_r169623164
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nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-hbase-bundle/nifi-hbase-processors/src/main/java/org/apache/nifi/hbase/ScanHBase.java
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+package org.apache.nifi.hbase;
+
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
+import org.apache.nifi.annotation.behavior.InputRequirement;
+import org.apache.nifi.annotation.behavior.WritesAttribute;
+import org.apache.nifi.annotation.behavior.WritesAttributes;
+import org.apache.nifi.annotation.documentation.CapabilityDescription;
+import org.apache.nifi.annotation.documentation.Tags;
+import org.apache.nifi.annotation.lifecycle.OnScheduled;
+import org.apache.nifi.components.AllowableValue;
+import org.apache.nifi.components.PropertyDescriptor;
+import org.apache.nifi.components.ValidationContext;
+import org.apache.nifi.components.ValidationResult;
+import org.apache.nifi.flowfile.FlowFile;
+import org.apache.nifi.flowfile.attributes.CoreAttributes;
+import org.apache.nifi.hbase.io.JsonFullRowSerializer;
+import org.apache.nifi.hbase.io.JsonQualifierAndValueRowSerializer;
+import org.apache.nifi.hbase.io.RowSerializer;
+import org.apache.nifi.hbase.scan.Column;
+import org.apache.nifi.hbase.scan.ResultCell;
+import org.apache.nifi.hbase.scan.ResultHandler;
+import org.apache.nifi.processor.AbstractProcessor;
+import org.apache.nifi.processor.ProcessContext;
+import org.apache.nifi.processor.ProcessSession;
+import org.apache.nifi.processor.Relationship;
+import org.apache.nifi.processor.exception.ProcessException;
+import org.apache.nifi.processor.util.StandardValidators;
+import org.apache.nifi.util.Tuple;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.nio.charset.Charset;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.HashSet;
+import java.util.Iterator;
+import java.util.LinkedList;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Set;
+import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicReference;
+import java.util.regex.Pattern;
+
+@InputRequirement(InputRequirement.Requirement.INPUT_REQUIRED)
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Are you sure you don't want to do `INPUT_ALLOWED`? I can see good reasons
not to do that. If you want to make it optional, see `ExecuteSQL` for some code
you can steal to make it not do processing on flowfile input AND time interval.
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