I believe as soon as this is merged Joe Witt is planning to prepare the
1.19.1 RC candidate and open the vote. We should have a release by next
week unless something comes up


On Dec 1, 2022 at 07:44:29, [email protected] wrote:

> Hi Bence
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>
> Ok got it, thanks a lot, So we will try to sync as less as possible. Let’s
> hope that we will see a NiFi 1.19.1 soon…
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>
> Cheers Josef
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>
> *From: *Simon Bence <[email protected]>
> *Reply to: *"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> *Date: *Thursday, 1 December 2022 at 13:42
> *To: *"[email protected]" <[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,
>
>
>
> 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 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:
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> Hi Josef,
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>
> Your welcome! In your case it looks like the information is lost during
> transformations of the internal representation.
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> For technical details, here you can take a look on the code changes:
> https://github.com/apache/nifi/commit/df2147829742129c039b37c5d6f4f11aa54785a2
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Bence
>
>
>
> On 2022. Nov 29., at 16:08, <[email protected]> <
> [email protected]> wrote:
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> Hi Bence, Joe
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>
> 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]>
> *Reply to: *"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> *Date: *Tuesday, 29 November 2022 at 13:31
> *To: *"[email protected]" <[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 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]> wrote:
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> 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]> 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.  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]> 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:
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>
> <image001.png>
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>
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> 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>
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> 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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>

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