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ASF GitHub Bot commented on NIFI-5147:
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Github user ottobackwards commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/2802#discussion_r199351889
--- Diff:
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 "
--- End diff --
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.
> Improve HashAttribute processor
> -------------------------------
>
> Key: NIFI-5147
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-5147
> Project: Apache NiFi
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Extensions
> Affects Versions: 1.6.0
> Reporter: Andy LoPresto
> Assignee: Otto Fowler
> Priority: Major
> Labels: hash, security
>
> The {{HashAttribute}} processor currently has surprising behavior. Barring
> familiarity with the processor, a user would expect {{HashAttribute}} to
> generate a hash value over one or more attributes. Instead, the processor as
> it is implemented "groups" incoming flowfiles into groups based on regular
> expressions which match attribute values, and then generates a
> (non-configurable) MD5 hash over the concatenation of the matching attribute
> keys and values.
> In addition:
> * the processor throws an error and routes to failure any incoming flowfile
> which does not have all attributes specified in the processor
> * the use of MD5 is vastly deprecated
> * no other hash algorithms are available
> I am unaware of community use of this processor, but I do not want to break
> backward compatibility. I propose the following steps:
> * Implement a new {{CalculateAttributeHash}} processor (awkward name, but
> this processor already has the desired name)
> ** This processor will perform the "standard" use case -- identify an
> attribute, calculate the specified hash over the value, and write it to an
> output attribute
> ** This processor will have a required property descriptor allowing a
> dropdown menu of valid hash algorithms
> ** This processor will accept arbitrary dynamic properties identifying the
> attributes to be hashed as a key, and the resulting attribute name as a value
> ** Example: I want to generate a SHA-512 hash on the attribute {{username}},
> and a flowfile enters the processor with {{username}} value {{alopresto}}. I
> configure {{algorithm}} with {{SHA-512}} and add a dynamic property
> {{username}} -- {{username_SHA512}}. The resulting flowfile will have
> attribute {{username_SHA512}} with value
> {{739b4f6722fb5de20125751c7a1a358b2a7eb8f07e530e4bf18561fbff93234908aa9d2577770c876bca9ede5ba784d5ce6081dbbdfe5ddd446678f223b8d632}}
> * Improve the documentation of this processor to explain the goal/expected
> use case (?)
> * Link in processor documentation to new processor for standard use cases
> * Remove the error alert when an incoming flowfile does not contain all
> expected attributes. I propose changing the severity to INFO and still
> routing to failure
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