Hi Anil,

The Quick Start [1], contributor's guide [2], and developer's guide [3]
have a lot of good information.  We are of course happy to answer any
questions across the mailing list should you hit any parts that are unclear
or just have general questions.

Looking forward to your contributions!

[1] http://nifi.apache.org/quickstart.html
[2] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NIFI/Contributor+Guide
[3] http://nifi.apache.org/developer-guide.html

On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 4:39 PM, Anil Rai <anilrain...@gmail.com> wrote:

> To clarify...to start contributing...is there a guide for naming
> convention, github, unit testing and things like that......
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 4:38 PM, Anil Rai <anilrain...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Thanks Mark for the detailed explanation and suggestions. Will take a
> > look. Yes, I was referring to ExecuteSQL.
> > To start contributing, is there any documentation or guide for starters?
> >
> > Cheers
> > Anil
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 8:24 AM, Mark Payne <marka...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Anil,
> >>
> >> Sorry that it took so long to respond. This email got lost in my inbox,
> >> it seems.
> >>
> >> Regarding a mapper UI: there is not currently anything like that in
> NiFi.
> >> I do not
> >> know of anyone building such a thing either. However, it would be very
> >> helpful,
> >> for sure, if it is something that you are interested in contributing.
> >>
> >> Regarding ExecuteSQL (I'm assuming that this is the processor that
> you're
> >> referring to),
> >> I agree that this can be better. In the latest version, 1.2.0, we
> >> introduced the concept of Record
> >> Readers and Record Writers, and I think that this Processor needs to be
> >> updated to make use of
> >> those. This would allow you to choose JSON, Avro, etc. as the output
> >> format. At the moment, there
> >> is no Record Reader or Writer for XML but I think that we will need to
> be
> >> building one in the near
> >> future (again, another great place for you to jump in if you are
> >> interested in contributing). I have
> >> seen someone make use of the scripted Record Writer in order to write
> >> XML, as well, as Groovy
> >> has a lot of built-in niceties for reading and writing XML, so that
> would
> >> be another option.
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >> -Mark
> >>
> >>
> >> > On May 19, 2017, at 12:14 PM, Anil Rai <anilrain...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Hi,
> >> > I was wondering if there is an UI for XML mapping that is already
> >> available
> >> > or some is working on?
> >> > We have transformXML. But the problem is that we need to generate the
> >> XSLT
> >> > outside and then feed it in. It would be nice if we have a mapper
> that a
> >> > developer/business user can use to map the source to the target
> >> graphically.
> >> > Also today the DB connector out comes out in avero format. We are
> >> forced to
> >> > add additional transforms like avero to json or avero to xml to
> >> proceed. It
> >> > would be nice if we could configure the DB processor to output the
> file
> >> in
> >> > the format that we need/
> >> > Any thoughts?
> >> >
> >> > Thanks
> >> > Anil
> >>
> >>
> >
>

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