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Joseph Witt commented on NIFI-583:
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> Provide ExecuteStreamCommand option of streaming contents over STDIN of an
> incoming flowfile
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>
> Key: NIFI-583
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-583
> Project: Apache NiFi
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 0.1.0
> Reporter: Ricky Saltzer
> Assignee: Aldrin Piri
> Fix For: 0.2.0
>
> Attachments:
> 0001-NIFI-583-Adjusting-the-callback-to-be-aware-of-wheth-Checkstyle-Fix.patch,
> 0001-NIFI-583-Adjusting-the-callback-to-be-aware-of-wheth.patch,
> NIFI-583.1.patch, NIFI-583.2.patch
>
>
> In some cases it would be really nice to allow a FlowFile to trigger an OS
> action. For instance, after a daily dump of data is written to an Impala
> table in HDFS, I would like to execute a refresh on the table via the shell.
> As it stands, the ExecuteProcess processor will allow a FlowFile in a
> connection to trigger execution, but unless your connection has an expiration
> set, the FlowFile will stay there indefinitely. The main issue here is that
> it will continue to re-execute your ExecuteProcess processor over and over.
> As far as I know, there's only two clear ways around this. (1) - you can use
> the ExecuteStreamCommand, instead, but *only* if that command can properly
> handle STDIN. (2) - you can set your ExecuteProcess processor to execute on a
> schedule (e.g. 1 per minute) and expire the FlowFile before it can re-execute
> (e.g. 10 seconds).
> It would be useful if the ExecuteProcess processor consumed the FlowFile, and
> passed it through a "passthrough" relationship of some kind. A second option
> would be to make it configurable (false by default) to drop the FlowFile, or
> to pass it through a second relationship, that way it doesn't break anyone's
> current pipelines.
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