Github user ottobackwards commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/2802#discussion_r199351889
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nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-standard-bundle/nifi-standard-processors/src/main/java/org/apache/nifi/processors/standard/CalculateAttributeHash.java
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+
+package org.apache.nifi.processors.standard;
+
+import org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Hex;
+import org.apache.commons.codec.digest.DigestUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
+import org.apache.nifi.annotation.behavior.DynamicProperty;
+import org.apache.nifi.annotation.behavior.EventDriven;
+import org.apache.nifi.annotation.behavior.InputRequirement;
+import org.apache.nifi.annotation.behavior.SideEffectFree;
+import org.apache.nifi.annotation.behavior.SupportsBatching;
+import org.apache.nifi.annotation.behavior.WritesAttribute;
+import org.apache.nifi.annotation.documentation.CapabilityDescription;
+import org.apache.nifi.annotation.documentation.Tags;
+import org.apache.nifi.components.AllowableValue;
+import org.apache.nifi.components.PropertyDescriptor;
+import org.apache.nifi.flowfile.FlowFile;
+import org.apache.nifi.logging.ComponentLog;
+import org.apache.nifi.processor.AbstractProcessor;
+import org.apache.nifi.processor.ProcessContext;
+import org.apache.nifi.processor.ProcessSession;
+import org.apache.nifi.processor.ProcessorInitializationContext;
+import org.apache.nifi.processor.Relationship;
+import org.apache.nifi.processor.util.StandardValidators;
+
+import java.nio.charset.Charset;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.HashSet;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Set;
+import java.util.SortedMap;
+import java.util.TreeMap;
+import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicReference;
+
+@EventDriven
+@SideEffectFree
+@SupportsBatching
+@Tags({"attributes", "hash"})
+@InputRequirement(InputRequirement.Requirement.INPUT_REQUIRED)
+@CapabilityDescription("Calculates a hash value for the value specified
attributes and write it to an output attribute. Please refer to
https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/Hash-Functions/NIST-Policy-on-Hash-Functions
help decide on which algorithm to use.")
+@WritesAttribute(attribute = "<Specified Attribute Name per Dynamic
Property>", description = "This Processor adds an attribute whose value is the
result of "
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After looking through this, I'm not certain what you are saying here. Do
you mean that we don't let them give whatever name they want to the new hash
attributes and instead just name them attr.hash always? I don't understand
about 'overwriting the attribute'. Can you explain that a little more?
HashAttributes already has this capability.
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