Re: Will you accept contributions in Scala?

Sorry for the late response, but the point about the Extension Repo making this a moot point is an important one. The idea that you need to get your processor into the main codebase to have it be known and useful is something that is easier to overcome than a language war. On February 13, 2018

Re: Will you accept contributions in Scala?

I completely second Mike's sentiment here as well as cautionary statements by other contributors over this thread's history (Matt Burgess' post in particular). Besides fueling flame wars and religious inquisition, you cannot open the door to Scala without opening it to other (JVM languages at

Re: Will you accept contributions in Scala?

Milan, I don't think you can do that without creating a lot of fuel for a flame war. I have personally never met a Scala developer who was incapable of writing decent Java. The same is true of Groovy. I think anyone who finds the requirement to use Java over their language of choice to be a deal

Re: Will you accept contributions in Scala?

I think we should not add blindly any language but should be open to add couple of language like Scala. In Bigdata world Scala/Python/Java are widely accepted. Thanks, Milan Das Interset On 2/13/18, 10:20 AM, "Weiss, Adam" wrote: I think it makes the most

Re: Will you accept contributions in Scala?

I think it makes the most sense to me for us to publish a separate repo with a module and nar build for now and post when it's available in the users group. Thanks for the discussion everyone, hopefully we can start making some helpful contributions soon. -Adam On 2018/02/10 23:43:31, Tony

Re: Will you accept contributions in Scala?

It is like Matt read my mind. On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 6:26 PM, Matt Burgess wrote: > I'm fine with a vote, but I'll be voting to keep Java as the single > language for the (non-test) code. I share the same concerns as many of > the other folks as far as accepting other

Re: Will you accept contributions in Scala?

I'm fine with a vote, but I'll be voting to keep Java as the single language for the (non-test) code. I share the same concerns as many of the other folks as far as accepting other languages, it's mainly the "slippery slope" argument that I don't want to turn into a JVM-language flame war. If

Re: Will you accept contributions in Scala?

Wasn't there a warning trigger about the NiFi distro size from Apache recently? IMO, before talking alternative languages, solve the modularity and NAR distribution problem. I think the implementation of a module won't matter much then, the point being not everything has to go in the core, base

Re: Will you accept contributions in Scala?

This probably necessitates a vote, yeah? Frankly, I’m usually happier writing Scala, and I’ve not encountered any problems using processors written in Scala, but I think it’ll be important to tread lightly. There’s a few things that pop into my head: - Maintainability and reviewability. A

Re: Will you accept contributions in Scala?

I agree more with Andy about sticking with Java. The more varying languages used, the more challenging it is to maintain. Once the code is part of the Apache NiFi git repo, it is now the responsibility of the committers and PMC members to maintain it. I’d even say I am somewhat against the

Re: Will you accept contributions in Scala?

+1 to Joe's response. If you can develop a component in Groovy or Scala (or Clojure!) more quickly/comfortably, or if allowing components written in other languages would encourage people to contribute more, I'm all for it. On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 7:42 AM Joe Witt wrote: >

Re: Will you accept contributions in Scala?

i personally would be ok with it for an extension/processor provided it integrates well with the build. i would agree with andys view for core framework stuff but for extensions i think we can do it like mikethomsen suggested. others? thanks joe On Feb 10, 2018 7:30 AM, "Mike Thomsen"

Re: Will you accept contributions in Scala?

I'm just a community contributor, so take that FWIW, but a compromise might be to publish the Scala code as separate maven modules to maven central and then submit a thoroughly tested processor written in Java. As long as you have enough unit and integration tests to give strong coverage, I

Re: Will you accept contributions in Scala?

Hi Adam, It’s great that your team wants to contribute to NiFi. I think there should be some discussion from other community members on this, but I’ll give my view here. At this time, I believe we should only accept core contributions in Java. It’s not because I have a predisposition against

Will you accept contributions in Scala?

Devs, I have some interns starting with my team and we use Scala internally for our work. If I wanted to have them work to contribute some new processors, would they have to be Java to be included with the base distribution or could they use Scala as long as it fit within your current build