RE: Automating updates in process groups through templates

2017-03-09 Thread Carlos Manuel Fernandes (DSI)
James, one idea, if your common workflow was wrapped with HandleHttpRequest and HandleHttpResponse you can reuse them (calling with invokeHttp) since you pass all the parameters in the request and your workflow use them as attributes. Your common workflow behaves like a Micro Service. Of

Re: Automating updates in process groups through templates

2017-03-09 Thread James McMahon
Thank you Joe and Oleg. Reference-able Process Groups sounds like it would address what we intend to do, without using templates. Which would be fine and which would presumably serve the same purpose. How far off in the future is this feature? Six months? A year? NiFi has a rich and powerful tool

Re: Automating updates in process groups through templates

2017-03-09 Thread James McMahon
I am happy to do this Oleg. Thank you very much for your reply. Cheers, Jim On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 6:56 AM, Oleg Zhurakousky < ozhurakou...@hortonworks.com> wrote: > Jim > > I see where you’re going with this and I do believe that it is a valuable > enterprise feature. Unfortunately, template

Re: Automating updates in process groups through templates

2017-03-09 Thread Oleg Zhurakousky
Jim I see where you’re going with this and I do believe that it is a valuable enterprise feature. Unfortunately, template XML files are not the bootstrap source of the flow such as flow.gz file. They are only used for save/move/migrate/etc., which means any modifications to them are not going