Jim, It is compressed using GZIP, so you can simply uncompress the file to view/modify the raw XML content of the flow definition. I wouldn’t recommend editing the file directly in daily use, but I certainly do this for debugging problematic user flows or when I was working on the sensitive property encryption, for example. Here is an old mailing list item regarding this [1].
[1] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b93ced98eff6a77dd0a2a2f0b5785ef42a3b02de2cee5c17607a8c49@%3Cdev.nifi.apache.org%3E Andy LoPresto [email protected] [email protected] PGP Fingerprint: 70EC B3E5 98A6 5A3F D3C4 BACE 3C6E F65B 2F7D EF69 > On Jul 19, 2017, at 11:54 AM, James McMahon <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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
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