On a project that I am on we have been looking at using NiFi for orchestrations that are invoked infrequently. For example, once a month a new data input product becomes available and then one wants to run it through a set of processing steps that can be nicely implemented using NiFi processors. However, using the interval or cron scheduling for this purpose begins to get cumbersome after a while with the need to start and manually stop these occasional flows.
It would be fairly easy to add an additional scheduling option - “Run Once” for this use case. The behavior would be that when a processor is set to run once it automatically stops after it has successfully processed one input. What do people think? We are willing to implement this small enhancement. Cheers, Naz Irizarry MITRE Corp. 617-893-0074
