Github user phrocker commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/nifi-minifi-cpp/pull/85#discussion_r114138536
--- Diff: libminifi/src/core/yaml/YamlConfiguration.cpp ---
@@ -491,14 +510,18 @@ void YamlConfiguration::parsePortYaml(YAML::Node
*portNode,
YAML::Node inputPortsObj = portNode->as<YAML::Node>();
- // generate the random UIID
- uuid_generate(uuid);
-
- auto portId = inputPortsObj["id"].as<std::string>();
+ // Check for required fields
+ checkRequiredField(&inputPortsObj, "name");
auto nameStr = inputPortsObj["name"].as<std::string>();
+ checkRequiredField(&inputPortsObj, "id", "The field 'id' is required for
"
+ "the port named '" + nameStr + "' in the YAML Config. If this port "
+ "is specificy an input port for a NiFi Remote Process Group, the
port "
+ "id should match the id of of the input port in the NiFi
configuration. "
+ "This is a UUID of the format
XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX.");
+ auto portId = inputPortsObj["id"].as<std::string>();
uuid_parse(portId.c_str(), uuid);
- port = new minifi::RemoteProcessorGroupPort(nameStr.c_str(), uuid);
+ port = new minifi::RemoteProcessorGroupPort(nameStr, uuid);
processor = (std::shared_ptr<core::Processor>) port;
--- End diff --
we should fix this while we're here. we shouldn't cast a raw pointer to a
shared pointer. That can have unintended consequences. I didn't catch this when
making changes, apparently.
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