So the "transfer relationship not specified" occurs down in the Provenance processing, where it checks to see if there are flowfile records associated with the session/relationship.
There are. When I inspect session.flowfilesout it's equal to 6, which is the correct number of calls to importFrom and transfer(), so this confirms that transfer() is called and did record the outbound flowfiles, yet when the provenance subsystem looks for these records it does not find them. Not being intimate with the internals of the framework yet, not sure what would case this. Rick -----Original Message----- From: Rick Braddy Sent: Friday, September 11, 2015 8:26 PM To: dev@nifi.apache.org Subject: RE: Transfer relationship not specified (FlowFileHandlingException) Mark, The interesting thing is that session.transfer() is being called, as I have stepped through it in the debugger. I'm only calling importFrom() for actual files (not directories), as shown below. This is a modified version of GetFile processor. Rick final ListIterator<File> itr = files.listIterator(); FlowFile flowFile = null; try { while (itr.hasNext()) { final File file = itr.next(); final Path filePath = file.toPath(); final Path relativePath = filePath.relativize(filePath.getParent()); String relativePathString = relativePath.toString() + "/"; if (relativePathString.isEmpty()) { relativePathString = "./"; } final Path absPath = filePath.toAbsolutePath(); final String absPathString = absPath.getParent().toString() + "/"; final long importStart = System.nanoTime(); String fileType = "directory"; flowFile = session.create(); if (file.isFile()){ fileType = "file"; flowFile = session.importFrom(filePath, keepingSourceFile, flowFile); } final long importNanos = System.nanoTime() - importStart; final long importMillis = TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.convert(importNanos, TimeUnit.NANOSECONDS); flowFile = session.putAttribute(flowFile, "file_type", fileType); // directory or file flowFile = session.putAttribute(flowFile, CoreAttributes.FILENAME.key(), file.getName()); flowFile = session.putAttribute(flowFile, CoreAttributes.PATH.key(), relativePathString); flowFile = session.putAttribute(flowFile, CoreAttributes.ABSOLUTE_PATH.key(), absPathString); Map<String, String> attributes = getAttributesFromFile(filePath); if (attributes.size() > 0) { flowFile = session.putAllAttributes(flowFile, attributes); } session.getProvenanceReporter().receive(flowFile, file.toURI().toString(), importMillis); session.transfer(flowFile, REL_SUCCESS); logger.info("added {} to flow", new Object[]{flowFile}); if (!isScheduled()) { // if processor stopped, put the rest of the files back on the queue. queueLock.lock(); try { while (itr.hasNext()) { final File nextFile = itr.next(); fileQueue.add(nextFile); inProcess.remove(nextFile); } } finally { queueLock.unlock(); } } } session.commit(); } catch (final Exception e) { logger.error("Failed to transfer files due to {}", e); -----Original Message----- From: Mark Payne [mailto:marka...@hotmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 11, 2015 6:39 PM To: dev@nifi.apache.org Subject: RE: Transfer relationship not specified (FlowFileHandlingException) Rick, This error message isn't indicating that there's no Connection for the Relationship, but rather than the FlowFile was never transferred. I.e., there was never a call to session.transfer() for that FlowFile. Thanks-Mark > From: rbra...@softnas.com > To: dev@nifi.apache.org > Subject: RE: Transfer relationship not specified > (FlowFileHandlingException) > Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 23:25:33 +0000 > > Some more details: > > 2015-09-11 18:23:23,743 ERROR [Timer-Driven Process Thread-3] > c.s.c.processors.files.GetFileData > GetFileData[id=8f5e644d-591c-4df1-8c79-feea118bd8c0] Failed to process > session due to > org.apache.nifi.processor.exception.FlowFileHandlingException: > StandardFlowFileRecord[uuid=58429f42-cd3c-481a-83ea-86d058de3515,claim > =org.apache.nifi.controller.repository.claim.StandardContentClaim@fe1e > a005,offset=0,name=printargs.c,size=190] is not known in this session > (StandardProcessSession[id=6967]): > org.apache.nifi.processor.exception.FlowFileHandlingException: > StandardFlowFileRecord[uuid=58429f42-cd3c-481a-83ea-86d058de3515,claim > =org.apache.nifi.controller.repository.claim.StandardContentClaim@fe1e > a005,offset=0,name=printargs.c,size=190] is not known in this session > (StandardProcessSession[id=6967]) > 2015-09-11 18:23:23,744 INFO [Timer-Driven Process Thread-3] > c.s.c.processors.files.GetFileData > GetFileData[id=8f5e644d-591c-4df1-8c79-feea118bd8c0] added > StandardFlowFileRecord[uuid=a9e8b8e6-1f27-4fbd-b7c4-7bf4be9ec444,claim > =org.apache.nifi.controller.repository.claim.StandardContentClaim@ff0c > ad6b,offset=0,name=anImage.png,size=16418] to flow > 2015-09-11 18:23:23,744 INFO [Timer-Driven Process Thread-3] > c.s.c.processors.files.GetFileData > GetFileData[id=8f5e644d-591c-4df1-8c79-feea118bd8c0] added > StandardFlowFileRecord[uuid=a324aaff-a340-499d-9904-2421b2bfc4a8,claim=,offset=0,name=in,size=0] > to flow ... > > So it seems there's some issue with each of the FlowFiles... > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Braddy [mailto:rbra...@softnas.com] > Sent: Friday, September 11, 2015 6:00 PM > To: dev@nifi.apache.org > Subject: Transfer relationship not specified > (FlowFileHandlingException) > > Hi, > > I have a processor that appears to be creating FlowFiles correctly (modified > a standard processor), but when it goes to commit() the session, an exception > is raised: > > 2015-09-11 17:37:24,690 ERROR [Timer-Driven Process Thread-6] > c.s.c.processors.files.GetFileData > [GetFileData[id=8f5e644d-591c-4df1-8c79-feea118bd8c0]] Failed to > retrieve files due to {} > org.apache.nifi.processor.exception.FlowFileHandlingException: > StandardFlowFileRecord[uuid=7ec0f931-6fdb-4adb-829d-80d564bd3d31,claim > =org.apache.nifi.controller.repository.claim.StandardContentClaim@9396 > 4c66,offset=244,name=225120878343804,size=42] transfer relationship > not specified > > I'm assuming this is supposed to be indicating there's no connection > available to commit the transfer; however, there is a "success" relationship > registered during init() in same way as original processor did it, and the > success relationship out is connected to another processor input as it should > be. > > Any suggestions for troubleshooting? > > Rick > >