Have you considered the Spring Expression Language? It might be more
general purpose and segmentable than the NiFi EL. I am not aware of any
capability that NiFi EL has that SpEL does not, but perhaps there is some.

On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 11:25 AM Joe Witt <[email protected]> wrote:

> Tim,
>
> It is certainly feasible/interesting but it would require a lot of legwork
> to extract and make it into its own thing that then is used by NiFi and
> then other things.  We could spawn it into its own subproject to facilitate
> perhaps..
>
> Such ideas are often tough to pursue though as it might be too tied to
> NiFi specifically (not sure that it is) and it requires spending a good bit
> of time not specific to NiFi (not always easy to build that
> momentum/community).
>
> Definitely understand your idea and I think it is cool you'd suggest it.
> I suspect though you'll have to be in position to help do heavy lifting to
> make it a thing.
>
> Thanks
> Joe
>
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 2:07 PM Tim Zimmerman <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> The NiFi Expression Language is quite powerful. I am working on another
>> project where I would love to have this sort of functionality and am
>> wondering how hard it would be to use nifi-expression-language outside of
>> NiFi, in some other Java app.
>>
>> I have looked at some other alternatives (e.g. JEXL, JUEL) but we are
>> already using NiFi and so are familiar with the syntax. And it seems more
>> powerful than some of the alternatives.
>>
>> How feasible is this idea?
>>
>>
>>
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