Thanks Matt, I could make use of the rest api to automate the template sync work.đ
2017-09-15 1:00 GMT+08:00 Matt Gilman <matt.c.gil...@gmail.com>: > Ben, > > In the 0.x baseline, the templates were stored in the templates directory > that you're referring to. Starting in the 1.x baseline, the templates were > migrated to become part of the flow.xml.gz. In order to support users > upgrading from 0.x to 1.x, templates in the directory are automatically > moved to the flow.xml.gz. If you're looking to automate template > importing/removal, I would recommend using the REST API. If you open up > your browser you should be able to see these requests in action. > Additionally, you can find documentation for them here [1]. The > import/upload endpoints are under Process Groups and the removal endpoints > are under Templates. > > Thanks > > Matt > > [1] https://nifi.apache.org/docs/nifi-docs/rest-api/index.html > > On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 2:40 AM, ĺ°šćć <batman...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi guys, I put all my flow template xml files inside the nifi template > > directory specified inside the nifi.properties config file so that nifi > > could read in all my templates. But sometimes I need to clear all the > > templates currently inside nifi and then place in a new template, I would > > remove all the template xml files inside the template folder and put the > > new template xml file into it. But when I restart nifi, there're 5 > > templates available, which are 4 old templates and 1 new template. > > > > I know I could manually remove all templates inside nifi, but I wish to > do > > this all programmatically. I also know nifi keeps the templates inside > the > > flow.xml.gz file. > > So does nifi simply adds the new templates in the template folder into > the > > flow.xml.gz file without removing the old ones? > > > > I have used beyond compare trying to compare the template xml file > content > > with the template section inside the flow.xml extracted from flow.xml.gz, > > they're slightly differently and most content are the same, does anyone > > know the relationship between these two? > > > > What I want to achieve is to keep the templates in the template folder > and > > the templates in nifi in sync without having to manually do anything in > > nifi UI, does > > anyone know if it's possible and if so how? Thanks. > > > > /Ben > > >
