Hi,
Thanks a lot for the suggestion. I didn’t know about jsonpath EL functions. I 
can easily implement that in my use case.

- Ashwin

On 2018/11/27 18:52:05, Bryan Bende <b...@gmail.com> wrote: 
> Unfortunately I don't think there is a good way to interpret the value> 
> of the key when it is Avro because we don't have any expression> 
> language functions that understand Avro or record-oriented values.> 
> 
> The main option would be to change how the data is being produced in some 
> way...> 
> 
> - Put the value you are interested in in a message header, then it> 
> will come across as a string key/value pair in a flow file attribute> 
> and use RouteOnAttrbute> 
> - Put the value you are interested in in the message body somewhere,> 
> use PartitionRecord to route on the value of the field in the message> 
> - Use a different kind of key serialization like json which can then> 
> be parsed with expression language functions> 
> 
> A possible improvement we could make is to add some kind of> 
> "avro-to-json" EL function, then from there use the EL jsonPath> 
> function.> 
> 
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 1:01 PM Ashwin Konale> 
> <as...@booking.com.invalid> wrote:> 
> >> 
> > Hi,> 
> > Its not encoding issue. I am not able to figure out how to read Kafka key 
> > itself.> 
> > eg.> 
> > Kafka key = {type: foo, meta: etc, etc }> 
> > Kafka message = {Avro Payload}> 
> >> 
> > I want to use RouteOnAttribute processor based on type = foo or bar. For 
> > this to happen, I need to extract value foo from Kafka.key to flow file.  
> > Basically I am not able to figure out how to read key and extract 
> > attributes from it from Kafka message in nifi. Could you suggest me 
> > something here.> 
> >> 
> > Thanks> 
> >> 
> >> 
> > On 2018/11/23 15:14:53, Mike Thomsen <m....@gmail.com> wrote:> 
> > > If you are having encoding-related issues with reading that attribute, 
> > > try>> 
> > > switching to the Kafka string serializer in your producer.>> 
> > >> 
> > > On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 10:12 AM ashwin konale <as...@gmail.com>>> 
> > > wrote:>> 
> > >> 
> > > > Hi,>> 
> > > > I have key-value pair of avro messages in kafka topic I want to 
> > > > consume>> 
> > > > from. I can easily do modifications on message value using nifi>> 
> > > > consumeKafkaRecord processor, but it doesnt show key of the message.>> 
> > > > ConsumeKafka processor has kafka.key attribute but I am not sure how 
> > > > to>> 
> > > > read its contents(Since it is avro encoded) and add certain values as>> 
> > > > attributes to flowfile. Any pointers will be much helpful.>> 
> > > >>> 
> > > > Thanks>> 
> > > >>> 
> > >> 
> 

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