Andy,

That worked thank you. For any one else following I called the get method
and then used the standard and protected classes with the nifiproperries
loader.

On Sep 24, 2016 2:26 AM, "Andy LoPresto" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Tom,
>
> If you are only concerned with the values in the currently-running NiFi
> instance, you shouldn't need to directly interact with the file system.
> Just use NiFIPropertiesLoader#get(). Use the static loaders if you want to
> get an instance from a specific (non-default) file location.
>
> Andy LoPresto
> [email protected]
> [email protected]
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> On Sep 23, 2016, at 23:09, Tom Gullo <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Andy, I wasn't sure if I would need to read the file in myself but it
> looks like I do.  Those unit tests help a lot. Thanks
>
> -Tom
>
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 10:47 PM, Andy LoPresto <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Meant to add that there are Groovy unit tests for those classes so you
>> may be able to copy the code directly from [1] and [2].
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/apache/nifi/blob/master/nifi-nar-bund
>> les/nifi-framework-bundle/nifi-framework/nifi-properties-
>> loader/src/test/groovy/org/apache/nifi/properties/Protect
>> edNiFiPropertiesGroovyTest.groovy
>> [2] https://github.com/apache/nifi/blob/master/nifi-nar-bund
>> les/nifi-framework-bundle/nifi-framework/nifi-properties-
>> loader/src/test/groovy/org/apache/nifi/properties/NiFiPro
>> pertiesLoaderGroovyTest.groovy
>>
>> Andy LoPresto
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>> On Sep 23, 2016, at 7:45 PM, Andy LoPresto <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Tom,
>>
>> You’ll want to take a look at ProtectedNiFiProperties [1] and
>> NiFiPropertiesLoader [2]. ProtectedNiFiProperties provides a decorator on a
>> normal NiFiProperties class which allows access to various values via key
>> access or through named getters. It “unprotects” the values and can return
>> a regular NiFiProperties instance with direct access to the plain values.
>> The NiFiPropertiesLoader can be instantiated with the decryption key
>> (currently the only supported protection scheme is AES/GCM encryption) and
>> can load multiple instances of the NiFiProperties directly from any
>> nifi.properties file simultaneously.
>>
>> If you wanted to do this with a non-native file (i.e. a source that NiFi
>> does not have an internal mechanism for reading), you’d probably use a
>> GetFile -> ExtractText -> EncryptContent processor chain, or the
>> ExecuteScript processor (Groovy and other scripting languages have
>> extensive tooling provided to easily read from files, parse text, etc.).
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/apache/nifi/blob/master/nifi-nar-bund
>> les/nifi-framework-bundle/nifi-framework/nifi-properties-
>> loader/src/main/java/org/apache/nifi/properties/Protect
>> edNiFiProperties.java
>> [2] https://github.com/apache/nifi/blob/master/nifi-nar-bund
>> les/nifi-framework-bundle/nifi-framework/nifi-properties-
>> loader/src/main/java/org/apache/nifi/properties/NiFiPropertiesLoader.java
>>
>>
>> Andy LoPresto
>> [email protected]
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>> On Sep 23, 2016, at 3:28 PM, Tom Gullo <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I'm using v1.0.  I want to access some values that are in the
>> nifi.properties file.  And I would like to just use the nifi.properties
>> file because I'll be encrypting some of these values and I want to use the
>> built in encryption feature.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 6:05 PM, Andrew Grande <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Which NiFi version? With 1.0 there are some bits for variable registry
>>> available, basically one can reference values from external config files
>>> via regular EL expressions.
>>>
>>> Andrew
>>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016, 6:00 PM Tom Gullo <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I want to read in values from nifi.properties in a Groovy ExecuteScript
>>>> processor.  What's the best way to do that?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> -Tom
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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