Github user phrocker commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/nifi-minifi-cpp/pull/404#discussion_r219606415
--- Diff: python/getFile.py ---
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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+from minifi import *
+
+from argparse import ArgumentParser
+from ctypes import cdll
+import ctypes
+
+
+
+parser = ArgumentParser()
+parser.add_argument("-s", "--dll", dest="dll_file",
+ help="DLL filename", metavar="FILE")
+
+parser.add_argument("-n", "--nifi", dest="nifi_instance",
+ help="NiFi Instance")
+
+parser.add_argument("-i", "--input", dest="input_port",
+ help="NiFi Input Port")
+
+parser.add_argument("-d", "--dir", dest="dir",
+ help="GetFile Dir to monitor", metavar="FILE")
+
+args = parser.parse_args()
+
+""" dll_file is the path to the shared object """
+minifi = MiNiFi(dll_file=args.dll_file,url =
args.nifi_instance.encode('utf-8'), port=args.input_port.encode('utf-8'))
--- End diff --
probably no need to do the encoding here
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