[answered on SO as well]

Kumar,

As of today, it is not currently possible to store data/objects in NiFi 
Registry other than a NiFi Flow and its configuration (component properties, 
default variable values, controller services, etc).

There have been discussions about extending NiFi Registry's storage 
capabilities to include other items. Often discussed is NiFi extensions, such 
as NAR bundles which are the archive format for components such as custom 
processors. This would allow custom components to be versioned in the same 
place as a flow and downloaded at runtime based on a flow definition rather 
than pre-installed on a NiFi/MiNiFi instances.

Today though, only Flows are supported. Other data or components has to be 
stored/versioned somewhere else.

If you have data you want to associate with a specific flow version snapshot, 
here is a suggestion: You could store that data externally in another service 
and use the flow version snapshot comment field to store a URI/link to where 
the associated data resides. If you use a machine parsable format such as JSON 
in the snapshot comment to store this URI metadata, an automated process could 
retrieve this data from an external system by reading this field when doing an 
operation involving a specific flow snapshot version.

Cheers,
Kevin


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From: kumar r <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 3, 2018 7:31:11 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Store external data into NiFi Registry


Is that possible to store external data (not NiFi flow) into NiFi Registry 
using REST API?

https://nifi.apache.org/docs/nifi-registry-docs/index.html

As i know, NiFi Registry designed for versioning NiFi flow. But i want to know 
whether it is capable of storing other data into NiFi registry and retrieve it 
based on versions.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51151363/store-other-data-into-nifi-registry

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