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? >> >> >> >> -- >> Sent from: http://apache-nifi-users-list.2361937.n4.nabble.com/ >> >
