Russell,
Try this expression in your Remote Path:
/logs/${now():toNumber():minus(86400000):format('yyyy-MM-dd')}
-- Mike
On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 4:53 PM, Russell Whitaker <russell.whita...@gmail.com
> wrote:
> I'm setting up a GetSFTP processor to run every morning to
> download files expected in a regular location named based on the
> previous day's date,
> e.g. /logs/2015-09-08. I'm trying to set the GetSFTP processor "Remote
> path"
> config setting with something like this:
>
> /logs/${date:toDate('YESTERDAY'):format('yyyy-MM-dd')}
>
> or
>
> /logs/${now()-86400000:format('yyyy-MM-dd')
>
> Both fail of course. In the second case, I'm trying a brute force
> offset based on the
> Nifi expression language guide, which says this for now():
>
> "The now function returns the current date and time as the number of
> milliseconds since Midnight GMT on January 1, 1970"
>
> Not according to my testing, and also checking NowEvaluator.java, which
> actually
> returns a DataQueryResult instance. As for the toDate('YESTERDAY')
> attempt, there
> seems to be no evaluator support for it, nor in
> java.text.SimpleDateFormat which it
> imports and uses. Anyone have suggestions for addressing this use case?
>
> Thanks!
> R
>
> --
> Russell Whitaker
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>
