Your use case description was excellent and helped expose a powerful and simple feature enhancement.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-1249 Thanks Joe On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 9:21 PM, Joe Witt <joe.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > Chandu, > > In building a template to support this I'm finding it more involved than > desired. If I get that done will post it unless someone else does so > sooner. However, the only reason it is more involved than I'd like is that > the ReplaceText processor does almost everything we need here. It can be > in line mode to do the eval/replace on a per line basis and it can extract > groups from the matching line and use those groups to format a new output. > However, the difficulty in your example is that we cannot take that date > string and convert it to a date and then format it back to a string (right > now). So will take a look at how we could better support the use case as > well. > > Something else of note is that there are a couple of folks working on > scripting processors so you could break into a convenient script to help > tackle some cases like this as well. > > Will dig a bit more and respond. > > Thanks > Joe > > On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 8:20 PM, Chandu Koripella <ckori...@starbucks.com> > wrote: > >> HI, >> >> >> >> I am very new to the nifi and evaluating to use to do simple >> transformations. I am trying to convert date format from ddMMMyyyy to >> yyyy/mm/dd using replace text option. I don’t find many options to do >> content replacement in the documentation. it is more focused for attribute >> manipulation. >> >> >> >> >> >> Hsere is my simple file format. how do I transform the data in col3? I >> appricaiate any help. >> >> >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Chandu >> > >
