Laurens, Just to add slightly to this question:
> Will ListS3 keep state correctly here for all 3 subdirectories? The answer is yes - ListS3 will keep state correctly for all 3 subdirectories. For example, if you setup a new ListS3 processor, give it a bucket and prefix, and start the processor, it will initially list all the items under the prefix, including any subdirectories. On subsequent runs, it will only list new keys under the prefix as they are added, as expected. Things get more complicated when you take that existing ListS3 instance and *change* the prefix. At that point, the processor state is based on the previous prefix, and only keys that are newer than the newest key under the old prefix will be listed. For example, if you were using date-based keys like this where new data is produced on a daily basis (and no new data is produced in old directories): /year/month/day/ and your initial prefix was /2017/08/08/, you'd only pick up new keys for that day. But if you changed the prefix to /2017/08/, you'd only get new keys, and nothing from /2017/08/07/ or older. Again, this assumes no late arriving data. If data did arrive late, you'd see those keys listed since the state is based on the last modified timestamp. Hope that adds more clarity. Adam On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 11:16 AM, Joe Skora <jsk...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, that's my understanding too. > > On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 1:14 PM, Laurens Vets <laur...@daemon.be> wrote: > >> Thank you for this information. There's no internal notion of directories >> in S3, only objects, so I suspect I'm good if I only set the bucketname? >> >> On 2017-08-08 09:55, Joe Skora wrote: >> >> Laurens, >> >> The S3 User Guide Working with Folders >> <http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/UG/FolderOperations.html> page >> explains how S3 provides a conceptual directory hierarchy using key name >> prefixes but that buckets really just hold a flat collection of objects. >> >> ListS3 will query S3 for the list of objects and then uses the object >> timestamp as James pointed out to determine what's new to be processed. >> (Though, it uses last modified timestamp not the last read timestamp.) >> You can populate the "Prefix" property of the processor so that to S3 can >> filter the object list (as if for a directory tree) before sending the list >> back to NiFi to make things more efficient when dealing with subsets of the >> bucket contents. >> >> Regards, >> Joe S >> >> >> On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 11:22 AM, Laurens Vets <laur...@daemon.be> wrote: >> >>> Hi list, >>> >>> Does the ListS3 processor keep state of multiple directories in a bucket? >>> >>> For instance, suppose I have a directory "logs" with subdirectories >>> "host1", "host2" & "host3". Each directory contains logfiles which are >>> added dailty. >>> >>> Will ListS3 keep state correctly here for all 3 subdirectories? >>> >>> Thanks in advance. >>> >>> Laurens >>> >> >> >
