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] > PGP Fingerprint: 70EC B3E5 98A6 5A3F D3C4 BACE 3C6E F65B 2F7D EF69 > > 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 >> [email protected] >> *[email protected] <[email protected]>* >> PGP Fingerprint: 70EC B3E5 98A6 5A3F D3C4 BACE 3C6E F65B 2F7D EF69 >> >> 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] >> *[email protected] <[email protected]>* >> PGP Fingerprint: 70EC B3E5 98A6 5A3F D3C4 BACE 3C6E F65B 2F7D EF69 >> >> 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 >>>> >>> >> >> >> >
