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ASF GitHub Bot commented on NIFIREG-7:
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Github user bbende commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/nifi-registry/pull/5#discussion_r134294952
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nifi-registry-provider-api/src/main/java/org/apache/nifi/registry/flow/FlowProvider.java
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+package org.apache.nifi.registry.flow;
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+import org.apache.nifi.registry.provider.Provider;
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+/**
+ * A service that can store and retrieve versioned flow snapshots.
+ *
+ * NOTE: Although this interface is intended to be an extension point, it
is not yet considered stable and thus may
+ * change across releases until the registry matures.
+ */
+public interface FlowProvider extends Provider {
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Kevin, thanks for taking a look...
I originally had shortened the name from FlowPersistenceProvider to
FlowProvider to make some of the supporting classes names less verbose, but
with the way things turned out I think it is a non-issue now and we can go back
to calling it FlowPersistenceProvider. I'll make that change and update the PR.
I envision there being a service above the providers, for now I'm calling
it RegistryService, which would coordinate the operations... So for example,
there would be a "snapshot method" on the service which would do something like
the following:
- Create any necessary versions or ids
- Call the metadata provider to persist the snapshot metadata
- Call a serializer to serialize the snapshot
- Call the flow persistence provider to save the serialized bytes
For the search example, we probably have to think through what we want to
support searching on. Searching by name is more like searching on metadata,
where as if someone wants to find a snapshot that contains processor XYZ, then
that would have to be searching into the content of each snapshot. I could
potentially see having a "search provider" that separated search into its own
thing, but need to think through it more.
> Define Flow Persistence Provider Interface
> ------------------------------------------
>
> Key: NIFIREG-7
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFIREG-7
> Project: NiFi Registry
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Bryan Bende
> Assignee: Bryan Bende
>
> The Flow Persistence Provider will be the interface that the REST/service
> layer uses to perform CRUD operations on versioned flows. The implementation
> used by the application should be configurable.
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