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Mark Payne commented on NIFI-5606:
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I am not opposed to allowing the creation of that parent element, but it likely
will be non-trivial.
I also think that UpdateRecord's usage will largely be replaced with the new
JoltTransformRecord processor, which makes a lot of things much easier :)
> UpdateRecord doesn't allow population of nested fields if input parent is null
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: NIFI-5606
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-5606
> Project: Apache NiFi
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 1.7.1
> Reporter: Joseph Percivall
> Priority: Major
>
> To reproduce, open the TestUpdateRecord.java processor and change the dynamic
> properties in testFieldValuesInEL[1] to the following:
> {noformat}
> runner.setProperty("/name/last", "NiFi");
> runner.setProperty("/name/first", "Apache");{noformat}
>
> Also, change person.json[2] to have no name field:
>
> {noformat}
> {
> "id": 485,
> "mother": {
> "last": "Doe",
> "first": "Jane"
> }
> }{noformat}
>
> After running, the output is:
>
> {noformat}
> [ { "id" : 485, "name" : null } ]{noformat}
>
> Where the expected output would be:
> {noformat}
> {
> "id": 485,
> "name": {
> "last": "NiFi",
> "first": "Apache"
> }
> }
> {noformat}
>
> [1][https://github.com/apache/nifi/blob/4c787799ff7d971eb924df1e496da8338e6ab192/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-standard-bundle/nifi-standard-processors/src/test/java/org/apache/nifi/processors/standard/TestUpdateRecord.java#L303]
> [2]
> [https://github.com/apache/nifi/blob/9ebf2cfaf1fdb1a28427aed5a8168004071efd12/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-standard-bundle/nifi-standard-processors/src/test/resources/TestUpdateRecord/input/person.json#L3]
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