Since it's XML it fails on the initial parse of the document as the entire FlowFile is a single XML Document.
Thanks Shawn -----Original Message----- From: Joe Witt <joe.w...@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2018 10:43 AM To: users@nifi.apache.org Subject: Re: ScriptedRecordReader Error Handling Cant your logic detect the strange characters and then apply its behavior? Alternatively, you could perhaps use ValidateRecord and have its reader only understand the good records. It should kick out the bad records and you can then apply deeper processing on them. Thanks On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 11:36 AM Shawn Weeks <swe...@weeksconsulting.us> wrote: > > Is there anyway for a ScriptedRecordReader to set an attribute on a FlowFile > when there is an error? Have a situation where I've written a groovy script > to parse xml into a specific record structure and occasionally the incoming > data has characters not allowed in XML. Unfortunately the system that > generates the XML is doing it through string manipulation instead of actually > understanding XML so it crams all kinds of junk characters in the data. I'd > rather not scrub every file as some of them can be large so I was trying to > figure out a way to only scrub them on exception. > > > Thanks > > Shawn Weeks
