Hello Bryan, Greetings of the day!
Thank you very much for your reply. I have quickly looked into the documents and we are looking forward for the deployment stuffs that are in development now. However it would be great, if I get some more guidance on the REST API part for testing automation. I am very new in this area so any help would be really beneficial. 1. Is it like first we need to create the flow in Web UI and then create a script to instantiate/ start it? 2. I have attached a DataFlow snap here (PFA), so for this what you would suggest? Can I create the entire Flow using REST API or how does that work? I know thesse might be basics again but I do not have knowledge on this! Thanking you in advance. ______________________ *Kind Regards,* *Anshuman Ghosh* *Contact - +49 179 9090964* On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 5:35 PM, Bryan Bende <bbe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > In terms of automated testing, anything that you can do in the UI can > also be done via the REST API [1]. So you could write scripts/code to > create a process group, then instantiate processors, connect them, > start them, send in known data, and check the output somewhere. > > As far as deployment, this is an area that the community is currently > working to improve [2]. Currently you can use templates as a > deployment vehicle [3][4], or you can copy the whole flow.xml.gz from > one environment to the other, assuming you want to completely move the > whole canvas from one environment to the other (depends on sensitive > properties encryption key being the same in each environment). This is > definitely an area that will significantly improve in the future, and > we are happy to hear and discuss on feedback on the feature proposals. > > Thanks, > > Bryan > > [1] https://nifi.apache.org/docs/nifi-docs/rest-api/index.html > [2] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NIFI/ > Configuration+Management+of+Flows > [3] https://github.com/aperepel/nifi-api-deploy > [4] https://github.com/ijokarumawak/nifi-deploy-process-group > > On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 7:54 AM, Anshuman Ghosh > <anshuman.ghosh2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello team, > > > > Greetings of the day! > > > > This is Anshu here and we in our organization have started with Apache > NiFi > > recently. > > I must appreciate the features and ease of usage of this tool and the > > community response, however I have couple of questions since we are in > the > > beginning. > > It would really be great if we can get some guidance on this. > > > > *Brief about our use case. * > > - We need to consume data from one/ more Kafka topics. > > - Need to transform data on the fly. > > - Need to write to HDFS finally with some partition logic. > > > > *What are we looking for?* > > - Please guide us on how to automate our end to end testing. > > - How to handle deployment in NiFi. If we develop and test a flow in > lower > > environments, is there a way to package them together and deploy them in > > higher environment? > > > > Thanking you in advance! > > Should there be any information required from my side, please do let me > > know. > > > > > > > > ______________________ > > > > *Kind Regards,* > > *Anshuman Ghosh* > > *Contact - +49 179 9090964* >
