All, I have submitted a patch for NIFI-210 to offer scripting capabilities, my GitHub feature branch is at:
https://github.com/mattyb149/nifi/tree/script-processors I would truly appreciate any comments, questions, or suggestions about this capability. Regards, Matt On 12/16/15, 11:41 AM, "Joe Witt" <joe.w...@gmail.com> wrote: >It is a fair criticism that sometimes the cohesion level of processors >can be simply too much. Early on I used to 'fight' to find the right >abstraction and argue that others do the same. But what I've found is >that it is better to let it happen naturally and to offer options. >Matt, I think your approach of giving yourself an option to break into >scripting in the middle of the flow in a way that lets you mangle data >as needed but benefitting from the strength of the framework is >perfect. Matt Burgess is working on NIFI-210 to incorporate those >languages and many others. > >Thanks >Joe > >On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 8:27 AM, Angry Duck Studio ><angryduckstu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Shweta, >> >> I think your issue demonstrates one of my minor complaints with NiFi -- >> that you always have to think in terms of several little, built-in pieces >> to get a simple job done. Sometimes it's fun, like a puzzle, but other >> times, I don't feel like dealing with it. That's why I wrote this: >> https://github.com/mring33621/scripting-for-nifi. A short, custom JS or >> Groovy script could have handled your JSON data munging in a single stroke. >> >> -Matt >> >> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 8:40 PM, shweta <shweta.agg1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Thanks Bryan!! Infact I followed the exact approach that you told. Just >>> that >>> I was clueless about using Mergecontent processor. So I wrote my custom >>> script to combine the different outputs and executed it using Execute >>> Stream >>> command. >>> Will try the same with Mergecontent. >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> View this message in context: >>> http://apache-nifi-developer-list.39713.n7.nabble.com/How-to-iterate-through-complex-JSON-objects-tp5776p5806.html >>> Sent from the Apache NiFi Developer List mailing list archive at >>> Nabble.com. >>>
