Github user phrocker commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/nifi-minifi-cpp/pull/295
I've been thinking more about this @minifirocks . I'm curious about the
inception of this idea. I see that there is coupling amongst components that
probably don't have a need to know for the metadata. In my opinion if you are
putting the information in the attributes then it is potentially removable
anyway, so why not use a Processor? If it's an immutable structure within the
flow file then it makes sense to do it at construction -- and not in the
attributes.
Further, any reason to use shared pointers for much of that meta
information? Ownership seems like it would be well defined and thus should be
coupled to the lifetime of that object. Move semantics (IMO) make more sense
with that type of component lifetime, further compounded by the fact that they
could be immutable.
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