Team, Ever since the Record based processors were first introduced, there has been active development in improving the Record APIs and constant interest in introducing new set of Record oriented processors. It has gone to a level where almost all the processors that deal with mainstream tech have a Record based counterpart, such as the processors for MongoDB, Kafka, RDBMS, HBase, etc., These record based processors have overcome the limitations of the standard processors letting us build flows which are concise and efficient especially when we are dealing with structured data. And more over with the recent release of NiFi (1.9), we now have a new feature that offers schema inference capability which even simplifies the process of building flows with such processors. Having said that, I'm wondering if this is a right time to raise the talk of deprecating processors which the community believes has a much better record oriented counterpart, covering all the functionalities currently offered by the standard processor.
There are a few things that has to be talked about, like how should the deprecated processor be displayed in the UI, etc., but even before going through that route, I want to understand the community's thoughts on this. Thanks, Sivaprasanna
