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ASF GitHub Bot commented on NIFI-751: ------------------------------------- GitHub user jackowaya opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/incubator-nifi/pull/70 NIFI-751 Add Processor To Convert Avro Formats Implemented a new NiFi processor that allows avro records to be converted from one Avro schema to another. This supports.. * Flattening records using . notation like "parent.id" * Simple type conversions to String or base primitive types. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/jackowaya/incubator-nifi avroconvert Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/incubator-nifi/pull/70.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #70 ---- commit d50171381f853334bb670edb5581445fdfef0e46 Author: Alan Jackoway <al...@cloudera.com> Date: 2015-07-07T21:28:26Z NIFI-751 Add Processor To Convert Avro Formats Implemented a new NiFi processor that allows avro records to be converted from one Avro schema to another. This supports.. * Flattening records using . notation like "parent.id" * Simple type conversions to String or base primitive types. ---- > Add Processor To Convert Avro Formats > ------------------------------------- > > Key: NIFI-751 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-751 > Project: Apache NiFi > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Extensions > Affects Versions: 0.1.0 > Reporter: Alan Jackoway > > When working with data from external sources, such as complex WSDL, I > frequently wind up with complex nested data that is difficult to work with > even when converted to Avro format. Specifically, I often have two needs: > * Converting types of data, usually from string to long, double, etc. when > APIs give only string data back. > * Flattening data by taking fields out of nested records and putting them on > the top level of the Avro file. > Unfortunately the Kite JSONToAvro processor only supports exact conversions > from JSON to a matching Avro schema and will not do data transformations of > this type. Proposed processor to come. > Discussed this with [~rdblue], so tagging him here as I don't have permission > to set a CC for some reason. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)