I sure will. Thank you very much for your insights Andy. On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 3:59 PM, Andy LoPresto <[email protected]> wrote:
> No, you can simply recompress it using gzip and NiFi will read it just > fine. For a programmatic example, you can also look at ConfigEncryptionTool > in the NiFi toolkit. > > Andy LoPresto > [email protected] > [email protected] > PGP Fingerprint: 70EC B3E5 98A6 5A3F D3C4 BACE 3C6E F65B 2F7D EF69 > > On Jul 19, 2017, at 12:49, James McMahon <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thank you Andy. After any edits to the unzipped xml file, are there any > particular options required by NiFi when the file is re-zipped with, say, > gzip, so that NiFi does not reject it at start time? -Jim > > On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 2:58 PM, Andy LoPresto <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> 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/b93ced98eff6a77dd0a >> 2a2f0b5785ef42a3b02de2cee5c17607a8c49@%3Cdev.nifi.apache.org%3E >> >> >> Andy LoPresto >> [email protected] >> *[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 >> >> >> >
