[jira] [Commented] (NIFI-4768) Add exclusion filters to SiteToSiteProvenanceReportingTask
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-4768?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel=16324798#comment-16324798 ] ASF subversion and git services commented on NIFI-4768: --- Commit 83d29300953fa86e89cb30c59dcb86ed660557cc in nifi's branch refs/heads/master from [~ca9mbu] [ https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=nifi.git;h=83d2930 ] NIFI-4768: Add exclusion filters to S2SProvenanceReportingTask NIFI-4768: Updated exclusion logic per review comments This closes #2397. Signed-off-by: Koji Kawamura> Add exclusion filters to SiteToSiteProvenanceReportingTask > -- > > Key: NIFI-4768 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-4768 > Project: Apache NiFi > Issue Type: Improvement >Reporter: Matt Burgess >Assignee: Matt Burgess > > Although the SiteToSiteProvenanceReportingTask has filters for which events, > components, etc. to capture, it is an inclusive filter, meaning if a filter > is set, only those entities' events will be sent. However it would be useful > to also have an exclusionary filter, in order to capture all events except a > few. > One particular use case is a sub-flow that processes provenance events, where > the user would not want to process provenance events generated by components > involved in the provenance-handling flow itself. In this fashion, for > example, if the sub-flow is in a process group (PG), then the user could > exclude the PG and the Input Port sending events to it, thereby allowing the > sub-flow to process all other events except those involved with the > provenance-handling flow itself. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029)
[jira] [Commented] (NIFI-4768) Add exclusion filters to SiteToSiteProvenanceReportingTask
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-4768?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel=16324799#comment-16324799 ] ASF subversion and git services commented on NIFI-4768: --- Commit 83d29300953fa86e89cb30c59dcb86ed660557cc in nifi's branch refs/heads/master from [~ca9mbu] [ https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=nifi.git;h=83d2930 ] NIFI-4768: Add exclusion filters to S2SProvenanceReportingTask NIFI-4768: Updated exclusion logic per review comments This closes #2397. Signed-off-by: Koji Kawamura> Add exclusion filters to SiteToSiteProvenanceReportingTask > -- > > Key: NIFI-4768 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-4768 > Project: Apache NiFi > Issue Type: Improvement >Reporter: Matt Burgess >Assignee: Matt Burgess > > Although the SiteToSiteProvenanceReportingTask has filters for which events, > components, etc. to capture, it is an inclusive filter, meaning if a filter > is set, only those entities' events will be sent. However it would be useful > to also have an exclusionary filter, in order to capture all events except a > few. > One particular use case is a sub-flow that processes provenance events, where > the user would not want to process provenance events generated by components > involved in the provenance-handling flow itself. In this fashion, for > example, if the sub-flow is in a process group (PG), then the user could > exclude the PG and the Input Port sending events to it, thereby allowing the > sub-flow to process all other events except those involved with the > provenance-handling flow itself. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029)
[jira] [Commented] (NIFI-4768) Add exclusion filters to SiteToSiteProvenanceReportingTask
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-4768?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel=16324800#comment-16324800 ] ASF GitHub Bot commented on NIFI-4768: -- Github user asfgit closed the pull request at: https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/2397 > Add exclusion filters to SiteToSiteProvenanceReportingTask > -- > > Key: NIFI-4768 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-4768 > Project: Apache NiFi > Issue Type: Improvement >Reporter: Matt Burgess >Assignee: Matt Burgess > > Although the SiteToSiteProvenanceReportingTask has filters for which events, > components, etc. to capture, it is an inclusive filter, meaning if a filter > is set, only those entities' events will be sent. However it would be useful > to also have an exclusionary filter, in order to capture all events except a > few. > One particular use case is a sub-flow that processes provenance events, where > the user would not want to process provenance events generated by components > involved in the provenance-handling flow itself. In this fashion, for > example, if the sub-flow is in a process group (PG), then the user could > exclude the PG and the Input Port sending events to it, thereby allowing the > sub-flow to process all other events except those involved with the > provenance-handling flow itself. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029)
[jira] [Commented] (NIFI-4768) Add exclusion filters to SiteToSiteProvenanceReportingTask
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-4768?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel=16324794#comment-16324794 ] ASF GitHub Bot commented on NIFI-4768: -- Github user ijokarumawak commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/2397 @mattyb149 Thanks for incorporating the comments. LGTM +1. Merging in! > Add exclusion filters to SiteToSiteProvenanceReportingTask > -- > > Key: NIFI-4768 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-4768 > Project: Apache NiFi > Issue Type: Improvement >Reporter: Matt Burgess >Assignee: Matt Burgess > > Although the SiteToSiteProvenanceReportingTask has filters for which events, > components, etc. to capture, it is an inclusive filter, meaning if a filter > is set, only those entities' events will be sent. However it would be useful > to also have an exclusionary filter, in order to capture all events except a > few. > One particular use case is a sub-flow that processes provenance events, where > the user would not want to process provenance events generated by components > involved in the provenance-handling flow itself. In this fashion, for > example, if the sub-flow is in a process group (PG), then the user could > exclude the PG and the Input Port sending events to it, thereby allowing the > sub-flow to process all other events except those involved with the > provenance-handling flow itself. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029)
[jira] [Commented] (NIFI-4768) Add exclusion filters to SiteToSiteProvenanceReportingTask
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-4768?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel=16324159#comment-16324159 ] ASF GitHub Bot commented on NIFI-4768: -- Github user mattyb149 commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/2397#discussion_r161257145 --- Diff: nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-extension-utils/nifi-reporting-utils/src/main/java/org/apache/nifi/reporting/util/provenance/ProvenanceEventConsumer.java --- @@ -235,6 +251,32 @@ private boolean isFilteringEnabled() { for (ProvenanceEventRecord provenanceEventRecord : provenanceEvents) { final String componentId = provenanceEventRecord.getComponentId(); +if (!componentIdsExclude.isEmpty()) { +if (componentIdsExclude.contains(componentId)) { +continue; +} +// If we aren't excluding it based on component ID, let's see if this component has a parent process group IDs +// that is being excluded +if (componentMapHolder == null) { +continue; +} +final String processGroupId = componentMapHolder.getProcessGroupId(componentId, provenanceEventRecord.getComponentType()); +if (StringUtils.isEmpty(processGroupId)) { +continue; --- End diff -- Good point, this is a copy-paste error, will remove. > Add exclusion filters to SiteToSiteProvenanceReportingTask > -- > > Key: NIFI-4768 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-4768 > Project: Apache NiFi > Issue Type: Improvement >Reporter: Matt Burgess >Assignee: Matt Burgess > > Although the SiteToSiteProvenanceReportingTask has filters for which events, > components, etc. to capture, it is an inclusive filter, meaning if a filter > is set, only those entities' events will be sent. However it would be useful > to also have an exclusionary filter, in order to capture all events except a > few. > One particular use case is a sub-flow that processes provenance events, where > the user would not want to process provenance events generated by components > involved in the provenance-handling flow itself. In this fashion, for > example, if the sub-flow is in a process group (PG), then the user could > exclude the PG and the Input Port sending events to it, thereby allowing the > sub-flow to process all other events except those involved with the > provenance-handling flow itself. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029)
[jira] [Commented] (NIFI-4768) Add exclusion filters to SiteToSiteProvenanceReportingTask
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-4768?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel=16324158#comment-16324158 ] ASF GitHub Bot commented on NIFI-4768: -- Github user mattyb149 commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/2397#discussion_r161256592 --- Diff: nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-extension-utils/nifi-reporting-utils/src/main/java/org/apache/nifi/reporting/util/provenance/ProvenanceEventConsumer.java --- @@ -256,9 +297,15 @@ private boolean isFilteringEnabled() { } } } +if (!eventTypesExclude.isEmpty() && eventTypesExclude.contains(provenanceEventRecord.getEventType())) { +continue; --- End diff -- Yes that's a good point, I just co-located them with their inclusionary counterparts. Will move them to the top. > Add exclusion filters to SiteToSiteProvenanceReportingTask > -- > > Key: NIFI-4768 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-4768 > Project: Apache NiFi > Issue Type: Improvement >Reporter: Matt Burgess >Assignee: Matt Burgess > > Although the SiteToSiteProvenanceReportingTask has filters for which events, > components, etc. to capture, it is an inclusive filter, meaning if a filter > is set, only those entities' events will be sent. However it would be useful > to also have an exclusionary filter, in order to capture all events except a > few. > One particular use case is a sub-flow that processes provenance events, where > the user would not want to process provenance events generated by components > involved in the provenance-handling flow itself. In this fashion, for > example, if the sub-flow is in a process group (PG), then the user could > exclude the PG and the Input Port sending events to it, thereby allowing the > sub-flow to process all other events except those involved with the > provenance-handling flow itself. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029)
[jira] [Commented] (NIFI-4768) Add exclusion filters to SiteToSiteProvenanceReportingTask
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-4768?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel=16324155#comment-16324155 ] ASF GitHub Bot commented on NIFI-4768: -- Github user mattyb149 commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/2397#discussion_r161256398 --- Diff: nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-extension-utils/nifi-reporting-utils/src/main/java/org/apache/nifi/reporting/util/provenance/ProvenanceEventConsumer.java --- @@ -89,16 +94,26 @@ public void setComponentTypeRegex(final String componentTypeRegex) { } } -public void addTargetEventType(final ProvenanceEventType... types) { -for (ProvenanceEventType type : types) { -eventTypes.add(type); +public void setComponentTypeRegexExclude(final String componentTypeRegex) { +if (!StringUtils.isBlank(componentTypeRegex)) { +this.componentTypeRegexExclude = Pattern.compile(componentTypeRegex); } } +public void addTargetEventType(final ProvenanceEventType... types) { +eventTypes.addAll(Arrays.asList(types)); --- End diff -- Nope, I think that was the original code, it only shows up as a diff here because I added a method before it. Will change it to use Collections for consistency. > Add exclusion filters to SiteToSiteProvenanceReportingTask > -- > > Key: NIFI-4768 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-4768 > Project: Apache NiFi > Issue Type: Improvement >Reporter: Matt Burgess >Assignee: Matt Burgess > > Although the SiteToSiteProvenanceReportingTask has filters for which events, > components, etc. to capture, it is an inclusive filter, meaning if a filter > is set, only those entities' events will be sent. However it would be useful > to also have an exclusionary filter, in order to capture all events except a > few. > One particular use case is a sub-flow that processes provenance events, where > the user would not want to process provenance events generated by components > involved in the provenance-handling flow itself. In this fashion, for > example, if the sub-flow is in a process group (PG), then the user could > exclude the PG and the Input Port sending events to it, thereby allowing the > sub-flow to process all other events except those involved with the > provenance-handling flow itself. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029)
[jira] [Commented] (NIFI-4768) Add exclusion filters to SiteToSiteProvenanceReportingTask
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-4768?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel=16323589#comment-16323589 ] ASF GitHub Bot commented on NIFI-4768: -- Github user ijokarumawak commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/2397 I confirmed that exclusion works as expected. The previous three comments are all I wanted to be updated if you agree with. If those are addressed, I'm +1 with this. Thanks! > Add exclusion filters to SiteToSiteProvenanceReportingTask > -- > > Key: NIFI-4768 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-4768 > Project: Apache NiFi > Issue Type: Improvement >Reporter: Matt Burgess >Assignee: Matt Burgess > > Although the SiteToSiteProvenanceReportingTask has filters for which events, > components, etc. to capture, it is an inclusive filter, meaning if a filter > is set, only those entities' events will be sent. However it would be useful > to also have an exclusionary filter, in order to capture all events except a > few. > One particular use case is a sub-flow that processes provenance events, where > the user would not want to process provenance events generated by components > involved in the provenance-handling flow itself. In this fashion, for > example, if the sub-flow is in a process group (PG), then the user could > exclude the PG and the Input Port sending events to it, thereby allowing the > sub-flow to process all other events except those involved with the > provenance-handling flow itself. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029)
[jira] [Commented] (NIFI-4768) Add exclusion filters to SiteToSiteProvenanceReportingTask
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-4768?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel=16323490#comment-16323490 ] ASF GitHub Bot commented on NIFI-4768: -- Github user ijokarumawak commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/2397#discussion_r161131114 --- Diff: nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-extension-utils/nifi-reporting-utils/src/main/java/org/apache/nifi/reporting/util/provenance/ProvenanceEventConsumer.java --- @@ -89,16 +94,26 @@ public void setComponentTypeRegex(final String componentTypeRegex) { } } -public void addTargetEventType(final ProvenanceEventType... types) { -for (ProvenanceEventType type : types) { -eventTypes.add(type); +public void setComponentTypeRegexExclude(final String componentTypeRegex) { +if (!StringUtils.isBlank(componentTypeRegex)) { +this.componentTypeRegexExclude = Pattern.compile(componentTypeRegex); } } +public void addTargetEventType(final ProvenanceEventType... types) { +eventTypes.addAll(Arrays.asList(types)); --- End diff -- Trivial, but is there any reason to not use `Collections.addAll` here, as addTargetEventTypeExclude does? > Add exclusion filters to SiteToSiteProvenanceReportingTask > -- > > Key: NIFI-4768 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-4768 > Project: Apache NiFi > Issue Type: Improvement >Reporter: Matt Burgess >Assignee: Matt Burgess > > Although the SiteToSiteProvenanceReportingTask has filters for which events, > components, etc. to capture, it is an inclusive filter, meaning if a filter > is set, only those entities' events will be sent. However it would be useful > to also have an exclusionary filter, in order to capture all events except a > few. > One particular use case is a sub-flow that processes provenance events, where > the user would not want to process provenance events generated by components > involved in the provenance-handling flow itself. In this fashion, for > example, if the sub-flow is in a process group (PG), then the user could > exclude the PG and the Input Port sending events to it, thereby allowing the > sub-flow to process all other events except those involved with the > provenance-handling flow itself. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029)
[jira] [Commented] (NIFI-4768) Add exclusion filters to SiteToSiteProvenanceReportingTask
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-4768?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel=16323488#comment-16323488 ] ASF GitHub Bot commented on NIFI-4768: -- Github user ijokarumawak commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/2397#discussion_r161131729 --- Diff: nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-extension-utils/nifi-reporting-utils/src/main/java/org/apache/nifi/reporting/util/provenance/ProvenanceEventConsumer.java --- @@ -235,6 +251,32 @@ private boolean isFilteringEnabled() { for (ProvenanceEventRecord provenanceEventRecord : provenanceEvents) { final String componentId = provenanceEventRecord.getComponentId(); +if (!componentIdsExclude.isEmpty()) { +if (componentIdsExclude.contains(componentId)) { +continue; +} +// If we aren't excluding it based on component ID, let's see if this component has a parent process group IDs +// that is being excluded +if (componentMapHolder == null) { +continue; +} +final String processGroupId = componentMapHolder.getProcessGroupId(componentId, provenanceEventRecord.getComponentType()); +if (StringUtils.isEmpty(processGroupId)) { +continue; --- End diff -- Do we want to skip events if processGroupId is not found for one? We probably better to apply the exclude rule if a processGroupId is known, different from inclusion rules. Unknown should NOT be filtered out by exclusion rules IMO. > Add exclusion filters to SiteToSiteProvenanceReportingTask > -- > > Key: NIFI-4768 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-4768 > Project: Apache NiFi > Issue Type: Improvement >Reporter: Matt Burgess >Assignee: Matt Burgess > > Although the SiteToSiteProvenanceReportingTask has filters for which events, > components, etc. to capture, it is an inclusive filter, meaning if a filter > is set, only those entities' events will be sent. However it would be useful > to also have an exclusionary filter, in order to capture all events except a > few. > One particular use case is a sub-flow that processes provenance events, where > the user would not want to process provenance events generated by components > involved in the provenance-handling flow itself. In this fashion, for > example, if the sub-flow is in a process group (PG), then the user could > exclude the PG and the Input Port sending events to it, thereby allowing the > sub-flow to process all other events except those involved with the > provenance-handling flow itself. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029)
[jira] [Commented] (NIFI-4768) Add exclusion filters to SiteToSiteProvenanceReportingTask
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-4768?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel=16323489#comment-16323489 ] ASF GitHub Bot commented on NIFI-4768: -- Github user ijokarumawak commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/2397#discussion_r161132714 --- Diff: nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-extension-utils/nifi-reporting-utils/src/main/java/org/apache/nifi/reporting/util/provenance/ProvenanceEventConsumer.java --- @@ -256,9 +297,15 @@ private boolean isFilteringEnabled() { } } } +if (!eventTypesExclude.isEmpty() && eventTypesExclude.contains(provenanceEventRecord.getEventType())) { +continue; --- End diff -- These two, `eventTypesExclude` and `eventTypes` are the most computationally cheap conditions. So, these should be done at the beginning, before checking ProcessGroup hierarchies. How do you think? > Add exclusion filters to SiteToSiteProvenanceReportingTask > -- > > Key: NIFI-4768 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-4768 > Project: Apache NiFi > Issue Type: Improvement >Reporter: Matt Burgess >Assignee: Matt Burgess > > Although the SiteToSiteProvenanceReportingTask has filters for which events, > components, etc. to capture, it is an inclusive filter, meaning if a filter > is set, only those entities' events will be sent. However it would be useful > to also have an exclusionary filter, in order to capture all events except a > few. > One particular use case is a sub-flow that processes provenance events, where > the user would not want to process provenance events generated by components > involved in the provenance-handling flow itself. In this fashion, for > example, if the sub-flow is in a process group (PG), then the user could > exclude the PG and the Input Port sending events to it, thereby allowing the > sub-flow to process all other events except those involved with the > provenance-handling flow itself. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029)
[jira] [Commented] (NIFI-4768) Add exclusion filters to SiteToSiteProvenanceReportingTask
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-4768?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel=16323461#comment-16323461 ] ASF GitHub Bot commented on NIFI-4768: -- Github user ijokarumawak commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/2397 Reviewing... > Add exclusion filters to SiteToSiteProvenanceReportingTask > -- > > Key: NIFI-4768 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-4768 > Project: Apache NiFi > Issue Type: Improvement >Reporter: Matt Burgess >Assignee: Matt Burgess > > Although the SiteToSiteProvenanceReportingTask has filters for which events, > components, etc. to capture, it is an inclusive filter, meaning if a filter > is set, only those entities' events will be sent. However it would be useful > to also have an exclusionary filter, in order to capture all events except a > few. > One particular use case is a sub-flow that processes provenance events, where > the user would not want to process provenance events generated by components > involved in the provenance-handling flow itself. In this fashion, for > example, if the sub-flow is in a process group (PG), then the user could > exclude the PG and the Input Port sending events to it, thereby allowing the > sub-flow to process all other events except those involved with the > provenance-handling flow itself. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029)
[jira] [Commented] (NIFI-4768) Add exclusion filters to SiteToSiteProvenanceReportingTask
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-4768?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel=16322858#comment-16322858 ] ASF GitHub Bot commented on NIFI-4768: -- GitHub user mattyb149 opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/2397 NIFI-4768: Add exclusion filters to S2SProvenanceReportingTask Thank you for submitting a contribution to Apache NiFi. In order to streamline the review of the contribution we ask you to ensure the following steps have been taken: ### For all changes: - [x] Is there a JIRA ticket associated with this PR? Is it referenced in the commit message? - [x] Does your PR title start with NIFI- where is the JIRA number you are trying to resolve? Pay particular attention to the hyphen "-" character. - [x] Has your PR been rebased against the latest commit within the target branch (typically master)? - [x] Is your initial contribution a single, squashed commit? ### For code changes: - [x] Have you ensured that the full suite of tests is executed via mvn -Pcontrib-check clean install at the root nifi folder? - [x] Have you written or updated unit tests to verify your changes? - [ ] If adding new dependencies to the code, are these dependencies licensed in a way that is compatible for inclusion under [ASF 2.0](http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-a)? - [ ] If applicable, have you updated the LICENSE file, including the main LICENSE file under nifi-assembly? - [ ] If applicable, have you updated the NOTICE file, including the main NOTICE file found under nifi-assembly? - [ ] If adding new Properties, have you added .displayName in addition to .name (programmatic access) for each of the new properties? ### For documentation related changes: - [x] Have you ensured that format looks appropriate for the output in which it is rendered? ### Note: Please ensure that once the PR is submitted, you check travis-ci for build issues and submit an update to your PR as soon as possible. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/mattyb149/nifi NIFI-4768 Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/2397.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #2397 commit 559c33e50cee3dc5e96b8dcb030a9f8464f3db18 Author: Matthew BurgessDate: 2018-01-11T20:00:03Z NIFI-4768: Add exclusion filters to S2SProvenanceReportingTask > Add exclusion filters to SiteToSiteProvenanceReportingTask > -- > > Key: NIFI-4768 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-4768 > Project: Apache NiFi > Issue Type: Improvement >Reporter: Matt Burgess >Assignee: Matt Burgess > > Although the SiteToSiteProvenanceReportingTask has filters for which events, > components, etc. to capture, it is an inclusive filter, meaning if a filter > is set, only those entities' events will be sent. However it would be useful > to also have an exclusionary filter, in order to capture all events except a > few. > One particular use case is a sub-flow that processes provenance events, where > the user would not want to process provenance events generated by components > involved in the provenance-handling flow itself. In this fashion, for > example, if the sub-flow is in a process group (PG), then the user could > exclude the PG and the Input Port sending events to it, thereby allowing the > sub-flow to process all other events except those involved with the > provenance-handling flow itself. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029)