Bryan/Pierre, both good ideas. Thanks for the input!

-----Original Message-----
From: Bryan Bende [mailto:bbe...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2018 2:14 PM
To: users@nifi.apache.org
Subject: [EXT] Re: Delay a FlowFile for a specific amount of time

Maybe a Wait processor with an expiration of 60 mins? If you never use a Notify 
processor then its basically just going to wait til the expiration.
On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 4:10 PM Peter Wicks (pwicks) <pwi...@micron.com> wrote:
>
> A coworker and I were working on a problem where we needed to delay a group 
> of FlowFile’s for 60 minutes. Our first attempt of course used ControlRate, 
> but with ControlRate the first file is let through immediately, and only 
> after that are the rest of the files delayed.
>
>
>
> We got it working by using FlowFile penalization on a broken PutFile 
> processor to penalize all files for 60 minutes, and all files fail due to the 
> bad config. In testing this looks good, but… well it’s pretty ugly. Is there 
> an easy fix for this? My first thought was we need a “Delay” processor.
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>
> --Peter

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