thats, close to the same flow i was looking at really. but was chucked out
for lack of EL support w/in GetTwitter. The good news is... we're learning!

On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 12:52 PM, Andy LoPresto <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi Sven,
>
> Someone may have a more streamlined solution, but I’d suggest taking a
> look at ExecuteSQL [1] to read from the database, ConvertAvroToJSON [2] to
> convert the output of the SQL query to JSON, and EvaluateJsonPath [3] to
> extract the specific values you are interested in. Then use UpdateAttribute
> [4] to populate those values from the flowfile content to an attribute, and
> finally use GetTwitter [5] to filter on those values.
>
> However, at this time the query fields in GetTwitter do not support
> Expression Language, so you will have to:
>
> * Modify the source of GetTwitter to support EL
> * Raise a Jira requesting this feature
> * Write a small script wrapping GetTwitter using ExecuteScript [6] to
> populate those values
>
> Sorry it’s not a cleaner solution. I would encourage you to raise the Jira
> [7] to have GetTwitter support EL in the query properties. It’s likely I am
> overlooking a potential simpler flow, but without EL support in GetTwitter,
> I don’t see an easy way forward.
>
> [1] https://nifi.apache.org/docs/nifi-docs/components/org.
> apache.nifi.processors.standard.ExecuteSQL/index.html
> [2] https://nifi.apache.org/docs/nifi-docs/components/org.
> apache.nifi.processors.avro.ConvertAvroToJSON/index.html
> [3] https://nifi.apache.org/docs/nifi-docs/components/org.
> apache.nifi.processors.standard.EvaluateJsonPath/index.html
> [4] https://nifi.apache.org/docs/nifi-docs/components/org.
> apache.nifi.processors.attributes.UpdateAttribute/index.html
> [5] https://nifi.apache.org/docs/nifi-docs/components/org.
> apache.nifi.processors.twitter.GetTwitter/index.html
> [6] https://nifi.apache.org/docs/nifi-docs/components/org.
> apache.nifi.processors.script.ExecuteScript/index.html
> [7] https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/CreateIssue!default.jspa
>
> Andy LoPresto
> [email protected]
> *[email protected] <[email protected]>*
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> On Aug 25, 2016, at 9:10 AM, Sven Davison <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> i have a GetTwitter processor which works wonders. I'm tracking a few
> people and a couple hash tags but i'm also pulling all hashtags out of the
> posts and tracking how many times i saw it and when the last time was that
> i saw it.
>
> example tweet: "hello world #earth #usa"
>
> if i'm watching #usa, i'll still get both tags and put them into my
> database. using the tag as the id, a count for how many times it's been
> seen and a lastSeen field for when it was last seen.
>
> what i would like to do, is dynamically follow new tags upon condition X.
> Say... once #earth gets more than 500 posts and only if the tag was seen in
> the last 7 days. I can make a view in MySQL to build the result set, but
> how do i get that result set into nifi, to follow those tags that will
> change.
>
>
>
>

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