Hi Josef,

I would like to inform you that there is an adjustment for the ticket I 
mentioned in my previous mail, which is needed for the proper behaviour of the 
function in every case. The change is in PR phase but I hope it will be merged 
soon: https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/6741 
<https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/6741> I would not recommend to go forward 
without this additional change!

Regards,
Bence

> On 2022. Nov 29., at 16:21, Simon Bence <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Josef,
> 
> Your welcome! In your case it looks like the information is lost during 
> transformations of the internal representation.
> 
> For technical details, here you can take a look on the code changes: 
> https://github.com/apache/nifi/commit/df2147829742129c039b37c5d6f4f11aa54785a2
>  
> <https://github.com/apache/nifi/commit/df2147829742129c039b37c5d6f4f11aa54785a2>
> 
> Regards,
> Bence
> 
>> On 2022. Nov 29., at 16:08, <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Bence, Joe
>>  
>> Thank you guys for your fast response.
>>  
>> @Bence you are right, the whole issue seems to be related to nested flows 
>> which we try to sync. We are relying heavily on this as we are doing the 
>> integration on one NiFi system and then sync it to production via the NiFi 
>> Registry. Our parent flow contains multiple nested flows.
>>  
>> Ok, as NIFI-10874 will be included in the next release we will skip the 
>> 1.19.0 and wait for 1.19.1 / 1.20.0. Sadly it will probably take more than a 
>> few days until we see the next release... Do you have an idea why the flow 
>> with the nested flow could lose the storageLocation? Because, we just change 
>> a small thing in one of the nested flows and suddenly one of the other 
>> nested flows have been losing it’s storageLocation in the parent flow and 
>> from this point the whole flow was broken. Now we are scared to change 
>> anything as it could brake anytime again.
>>  
>> Cheers Josef
>>  
>>  
>>  
>> From: Simon Bence <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>>
>> Reply to: "[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>" 
>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>> Date: Tuesday, 29 November 2022 at 13:31
>> To: "[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>" 
>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>> Subject: Re: NiFi Registry Bug which brakes the flow sync with NiFi 1.18.0 
>> (and same version of the registry) on nested flows
>>  
>> Hi Josef, 
>>  
>> Thanks for your patience!
>>  
>> I took a deeper look on what you were writing. In general, this is a sign 
>> for the case where the registry client cannot find the nested flow. As far 
>> as I understood in your case this happens when you are having a sync. Based 
>> on this you may be hitting https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-10874 
>> <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-10874> which is not part of NiFi 
>> 1.19.0. The next release should contain the fix that addresses your issue.
>>  
>> Regards,
>> Bence
>> 
>> 
>>> On 2022. Nov 28., at 17:48, Simon Bence <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Josef,
>>> 
>>> Thank you for raising the attention to this.
>>> 
>>> The storageLocation is a new concept to generalise the information used to 
>>> locate nested flows in a versioned flow. In general it can be there and 
>>> does not cause issues, as of now NiFi falls back the previous way to locate 
>>> nested flows. As Joe mentioned, there is a fix in 1.19, but I need to 
>>> double check if it relates to this situation. Please give me some time, I 
>>> will find you back.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Bence 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On 2022. Nov 28., at 17:17, Joe Witt <[email protected] 
>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Josef
>>>> 
>>>> Sorry for the challenges you've hit there.  I do think in 1.18 we had a 
>>>> bug/regression as we refactored our registry client.  That issue should be 
>>>> resolved in 1.19 which just went live thanks to 
>>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-10787 
>>>> <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-10787>.  However, I am not 
>>>> positive if this will solve the scenario you've hit now but please if able 
>>>> try it out.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks
>>>> 
>>>> On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 8:50 AM <[email protected] 
>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>> Hi guys
>>>> 
>>>>  
>>>> 
>>>> We had the following bug twice already and it broke the whole sync with 
>>>> the NiFi registry for the Flow/PG. First time was directly after we have 
>>>> upgraded from NiFi 1.15.3 to 1.18.0, but we ignored it as we thought it 
>>>> could be because of the upgrade, however it occurred again after a few 
>>>> NiFi Registry commits on NiFi 1.18.0… The error was the following when we 
>>>> tried to change the flow version or when we tried to start from scratch 
>>>> with that version from the NiFi Registry, so the version was broken in the 
>>>> NiFi Registry:
>>>> 
>>>>  
>>>> 
>>>> <image001.png>
>>>> 
>>>>  
>>>> 
>>>>  
>>>> 
>>>> We investigated the last NiFi Registry Commit and we saw in our GIT repo 
>>>> (we sync the “flow_storage” to GIT) on line 4847 that NiFi removed a 
>>>> “storageLocation” from another PG which makes no sense at all. We changed 
>>>> nothing there and especially why should NiFi remove only the 
>>>> storageLocation line… We have one specialty, as we have nested NiFi 
>>>> Registry flows, so one of the flows where the storageLocation has been 
>>>> removed was such a nested flow.
>>>> 
>>>>  
>>>> 
>>>>  
>>>> 
>>>> <image002.png>
>>>> 
>>>>  
>>>> 
>>>>  
>>>> 
>>>> Luckily we were able to resolve the error. We tried to add the line and 
>>>> commit it to GIT plus we dropped the the database to repopulate the DB, 
>>>> however it was broken again after a commit from NiFi. So we tried to 
>>>> manually create a new fake version on bucket.yml in the corresponding 
>>>> bucket folder and added as well the line in the snapshot again. We dropped 
>>>> then the DB and restarted NiFi Registry and voilà it was working again.
>>>> 
>>>>  
>>>> 
>>>> However it was a nightmare to get it working again as the flow was 
>>>> completely broken, we couldn’t checkout the affected version at all.
>>>> 
>>>>  
>>>> 
>>>> Any thoughts on this? Shall I fill a Jira Ticket? The problem is, we can’t 
>>>> really reproduce it, it looks like it happens randomly. As you could 
>>>> imagine, we can’t share our template as it contains a lot of confidential 
>>>> material.
>>>> 
>>>>  
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers Josef
>>>> 
> 

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