Neat, I hadn't thought of using that as a retry mechanism. Is there any way to 
tell how often a file has cycled through failure so you could distinguish 
between a transient failure and a permanent failure, like a permissions issue?


-Joey


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Joey Echeverria

On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Mark Payne <[email protected]> wrote:

> Joey,
> Nice - thanks for putting that together & sending out!
> Only feedback I would give is that for the PutHDFS, in the typical use case 
> you wouldn't want to Auto-terminate the failure relationship. Instead, you'd 
> route the failure relationship back to the PutHDFS Processor. This way, if 
> NiFi can't push the file to HDFS (network problem, typo in config file, 
> whatever), NiFi will be able to retry until it's successful.
> Thanks-Mark
>> Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 10:06:28 -0800
>> From: [email protected]
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Blog post
>> 
>> I wrote a quick getting started blog post on NiFi for the ingest.tips blog 
>> here:
>> 
>> http://ingest.tips/2014/12/22/getting-started-with-apache-nifi/
>> 
>> 
>> I focused on intefration with Hadoop and the flexibility of NiFi to 
>> integrate existing ETL flows and tools. 
>> 
>> 
>> -Joey
>> 
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>> Joey Echeverria
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