Pierre Villard created NIFI-14700:
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Summary: Option to ignore parameter value changes in git registry
clients
Key: NIFI-14700
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-14700
Project: Apache NiFi
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Extensions
Reporter: Pierre Villard
Assignee: Pierre Villard
In NIFI-14555 we added the option to commit a new versioned flow with empty
values for all parameters. This is a good strategy in case you want to make
sure that you're not inadvertently committing a new version that would contain
some parameter values that are specific to a lower environment.
However this strategy is not great when you have parameters where you want to
specify a default value. In such a case, and when using the strategy
implemented in NIFI-14555, you'd lose the default values for your parameters
when you commit a new version.
This JIRA is to add a new strategy allowing to commit a version where any
already existing parameter is ignored. It means that we change the version we
are committing by copying the existing values of the existing parameters into
the new version. This is particularly useful as changing the value of a
parameter is not considered as a local change so it can be confusing for a user
to commit a new version where it is also including parameter value changes.
This is not a perfect solution because this strategy does not allow the user to
change a default value that would have been set previously. But in that case
the user can switch between the strategies at the registry client level to
execute the right sequence of steps to get the expected end result.
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