Thanks Mark for answering so quickly! Is this something that's being actively worked on? If so I can contribute myself to the work streams
On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 5:16 PM, Mark Payne <[email protected]> wrote: > Guido, > > Dynamically deploying extensions is very much on the roadmap. There is > actually a Feature Proposal [1] > written that outlines some of the ideas about how it would work. The idea > being that extensions would be > published to an Extension Registry, and NiFi would then interact with that > Extension Registry (or registries) > to pull in the extensions at runtime as needed. > > Thanks > -Mark > > [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NIFI/Extensi > on+Repositories+%28aka+Extension+Registry%29+for+Dynamically > -loaded+Extensions > <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NIFI/Extension+Repositories+(aka+Extension+Registry)+for+Dynamically-loaded+Extensions> > > > On May 4, 2018, at 4:01 PM, Guido De Caso <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I've been reading about Apache NiFi and trying it out at my company as a > data-pipeline-as-a-service initiative. > > We are envisioning that third-parties, or at least different organizations > within my company should be able to write custom connectors. > > As far as I've been reading around, including in previous posts on this > e-mail group, the current flow for doing so requires NiFi to be restarted. > In other platforms that we are considering (e.g., Spring Cloud Dataflow) > this can be achieved without restarting the platform itself. > > NiFi has been so far our preferred choice to go forward, but the > must-restart-to-install-custom-processor requirement is making it a hard > sell internally. > > Is "hot-load" something that the NiFi team sees in the roadmap? Or does > NiFi architecture make this fundamentally impossible to achieve? > > Thanks in advance! > > -- > *Guido de Caso* > Software Architect | ❖ Medallia, Inc. > > <http://medallia.com.ar/careers> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/medallia-inc.> > <http://engineering.medallia.com/blog> <https://twitter.com/MedalliaArg> > <https://www.facebook.com/medalliaargentina> > > > -- *Guido de Caso* Software Architect | ❖ Medallia, Inc. <http://medallia.com.ar/careers> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/medallia-inc.> <http://engineering.medallia.com/blog> <https://twitter.com/MedalliaArg> <https://www.facebook.com/medalliaargentina>
