Github user MikeThomsen commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/2671#discussion_r185738577
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nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-marklogic-bundle/nifi-marklogic-processors/src/main/java/com/marklogic/nifi/processor/AbstractMarkLogicProcessor.java
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+package com.marklogic.nifi.processor;
+
+import com.marklogic.client.DatabaseClient;
+import com.marklogic.nifi.controller.DatabaseClientService;
+import com.marklogic.nifi.controller.DatabaseClientService;
+import org.apache.nifi.components.PropertyDescriptor;
+import org.apache.nifi.components.ValidationContext;
+import org.apache.nifi.components.ValidationResult;
+import org.apache.nifi.components.Validator;
+import org.apache.nifi.processor.AbstractSessionFactoryProcessor;
+import org.apache.nifi.processor.ProcessContext;
+import org.apache.nifi.processor.ProcessorInitializationContext;
+import org.apache.nifi.processor.Relationship;
+import org.apache.nifi.processor.util.StandardValidators;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Set;
+
+/**
+ * Defines common properties for MarkLogic processors.
+ */
+public abstract class AbstractMarkLogicProcessor extends
AbstractSessionFactoryProcessor {
+
+ protected List<PropertyDescriptor> properties;
+ protected Set<Relationship> relationships;
+
+ // NiFi requires a validator for every property, even those that don't
need any validation
+ protected static Validator NO_VALIDATION_VALIDATOR = new Validator() {
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`Validator.VALID` does the same thing.
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