Github user alopresto commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/2883
I am opening a PR for this for actual review before it goes into `master`,
but I included it in the 1.7.1 release
[a618ea5](https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=nifi.git;a=commit;h=a618ea55975094087023d02e27a9bd859f671702)
because it was blocking the build for me. ---
