Had an inquiry today whether flowfile.xml.gz can be modified indirectly outside of the UI? It appears to be an encoded file of some sort so I am guessing it is not possible, but wondered whether any tools had been developed to do that?
The use case would be to apply changes to a baseline flowfile.xml.gz in a DevOps environment - for instance one might define environment-specific settings in an Ansible script, so that a NiFi production instance could be stood up rapidly, a different integration instance, a different dev instance etc etc. Having worked with Pentaho for quite some time I have seen how readily transform and job changes can be made at the xml file level. Has anyone worked with tools that permit similar changes to flowfile.xml.gz outside the UI? Thanks for any insights. -Jim
