Re: Processor forwards/backwards compatibility

2018-11-16 Thread James Srinivasan
Mark, Gotcha, thanks very much. James On Fri, 16 Nov 2018 at 19:41, Mark Payne wrote: > > Hi James, > > The processor may or may not work with older versions of NiFi (1.x.0). But > should work with > newer versions of NiFi (1.z.0). That's because there may be a feature of the > nifi-api that

Re: Processor forwards/backwards compatibility

2018-11-16 Thread Mark Payne
Hi James, The processor may or may not work with older versions of NiFi (1.x.0). But should work with newer versions of NiFi (1.z.0). That's because there may be a feature of the nifi-api that you use in 1.y.0 and we can guarantee that will not be removed in 1.z.0 but it did not exist in

Processor forwards/backwards compatibility

2018-11-16 Thread James Srinivasan
I've read https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NIFI/Version+Scheme+and+API+Compatibility but I'm still not quite clear: I develop my own custom Processor against NiFi v. 1.y.0 Should that processor work with older NiFi releases 1.x.0 (x

Re: [DISCUSS] Extension Registry

2018-11-16 Thread Mark Payne
Mike, Thanks for bringing that up. It's a good point that we need to keep in mind. As mentioned, the NAR Maven Plugin will be generating the info necessary and putting it into the NAR. One piece of information that it will gather is any Controller Service API's that are provided by a given