Re: expression failure in URL concatenation?

2019-02-01 Thread Mark Payne
No, if you wanted to evaluate the literal string you'd need to use 
${literal("REST_URL")}
When you use ${REST_URL:endsWith("...")} you are testing whether or not the 
value of the REST_URL
variable ends with ...
Think of it the same as just using the expression ${REST_URL} -- you expect 
that to return the value of the REST_URL
variable, not the string literal "REST_URL". In your case, you're then just 
chaining together more EL calls.

Thanks
-Mark


On Feb 1, 2019, at 9:30 AM, l vic 
mailto:lvic4...@gmail.com>> wrote:

 "resolve the value of the REST_URL variable, then use that as the name of a 
variable."
Doesn't seem to make much sense: the plan is to run "endsWith" on value of 
REST_URL, doesn't your expression set to tun it on literal string "REST_URL" 
within {...} ?
Thank you,

On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 8:58 AM Mark Payne 
mailto:marka...@hotmail.com>> wrote:
Hello,

The issue appears to be that you're using `${${REST_URL}:endsWith`
at the beginning, which is saying "resolve the value of the REST_URL variable, 
then use that as the name of a variable."
So it's looking for a variable named "http://localhost:8080/nifi-api; and never 
finds it. So endsWith() evaluates to `false`
in all cases.

What you want is instead:
${REST_URL:endsWith('/'):ifElse('${REST_URL}resources','${REST_URL}/resources')}

I.e., check if the value of the REST_URL variable ends with a slash...

Thanks
-Mark


On Jan 31, 2019, at 4:42 PM, l vic 
mailto:lvic4...@gmail.com>> wrote:

I am using processor group variable as base part of my URL:
REST_URL=http://localhost:8080/nifi-api

I am trying to append second part of URL in InvokeHTTP regardless if REST_URL 
ends with '/', or not so that concatenation of 
"http://localhost:8080/nifi-api/;, or "http://localhost:8080/nifi-api; with 
"resources" return the same URL: "http://localhost:8080/nifi-api/resources":
${${REST_URL}:endsWith('/'):ifElse('${REST_URL}resources','${REST_URL}/resources')}

But the expression always appends '/', so in the first case I end up with 
"http://localhost:8080/nifi-api//resources;... Any idea where the error is?
Thank you,





Re: expression failure in URL concatenation?

2019-02-01 Thread l vic
 "resolve the value of the REST_URL variable, then use that as the name of
a variable."
Doesn't seem to make much sense: the plan is to run "endsWith" on value of
REST_URL, doesn't your expression set to tun it on literal string
"REST_URL" within {...} ?
Thank you,

On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 8:58 AM Mark Payne  wrote:

> Hello,
>
> The issue appears to be that you're using `${${REST_URL}:endsWith`
> at the beginning, which is saying "resolve the value of the REST_URL
> variable, then use that as the name of a variable."
> So it's looking for a variable named "http://localhost:8080/nifi-api; and
> never finds it. So endsWith() evaluates to `false`
> in all cases.
>
> What you want is instead:
>
> *${REST_URL:endsWith('/'):ifElse('${REST_URL}resources','${REST_URL}/resources')}*
>
> I.e., check if the value of the REST_URL variable ends with a slash...
>
> Thanks
> -Mark
>
>
> On Jan 31, 2019, at 4:42 PM, l vic  wrote:
>
> I am using processor group variable as base part of my URL:
> REST_URL=http://localhost:8080/nifi-api
>
> I am trying to append second part of URL in InvokeHTTP regardless if
> REST_URL ends with '/', or not so that concatenation of "
> http://localhost:8080/nifi-api/;, or "http://localhost:8080/nifi-api;
> with "resources" return the same URL: "
> http://localhost:8080/nifi-api/resources":
>
> *${${REST_URL}:endsWith('/'):ifElse('${REST_URL}resources','${REST_URL}/resources')}*
>
> But the expression always appends '/', so in the first case I end up with *
> "http://localhost:8080/nifi-api//resources
> "*... Any idea where the error
> is?
> Thank you,
>
>
>


Re: expression failure in URL concatenation?

2019-02-01 Thread l vic
No

On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 4:48 PM James Srinivasan 
wrote:

> Out of interest, does the URL containing the double slash work?
>
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2019, 21:42 l vic 
>> I am using processor group variable as base part of my URL:
>> REST_URL=http://localhost:8080/nifi-api
>>
>> I am trying to append second part of URL in InvokeHTTP regardless if
>> REST_URL ends with '/', or not so that concatenation of "
>> http://localhost:8080/nifi-api/;, or "http://localhost:8080/nifi-api;
>> with "resources" return the same URL: "
>> http://localhost:8080/nifi-api/resources":
>>
>>
>> *${${REST_URL}:endsWith('/'):ifElse('${REST_URL}resources','${REST_URL}/resources')}*
>>
>>
>> But the expression always appends '/', so in the first case I end up with 
>> *"http://localhost:8080/nifi-api//resources
>> "*... Any idea where the
>> error is?
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>>
>>


Re: expression failure in URL concatenation?

2019-02-01 Thread Mark Payne
Hello,

The issue appears to be that you're using `${${REST_URL}:endsWith`
at the beginning, which is saying "resolve the value of the REST_URL variable, 
then use that as the name of a variable."
So it's looking for a variable named "http://localhost:8080/nifi-api; and never 
finds it. So endsWith() evaluates to `false`
in all cases.

What you want is instead:
${REST_URL:endsWith('/'):ifElse('${REST_URL}resources','${REST_URL}/resources')}

I.e., check if the value of the REST_URL variable ends with a slash...

Thanks
-Mark


On Jan 31, 2019, at 4:42 PM, l vic 
mailto:lvic4...@gmail.com>> wrote:

I am using processor group variable as base part of my URL:
REST_URL=http://localhost:8080/nifi-api

I am trying to append second part of URL in InvokeHTTP regardless if REST_URL 
ends with '/', or not so that concatenation of 
"http://localhost:8080/nifi-api/;, or "http://localhost:8080/nifi-api; with 
"resources" return the same URL: "http://localhost:8080/nifi-api/resources":
${${REST_URL}:endsWith('/'):ifElse('${REST_URL}resources','${REST_URL}/resources')}

But the expression always appends '/', so in the first case I end up with 
"http://localhost:8080/nifi-api//resources;... Any idea where the error is?
Thank you,




Re: expression failure in URL concatenation?

2019-01-31 Thread James Srinivasan
Out of interest, does the URL containing the double slash work?

On Thu, 31 Jan 2019, 21:42 l vic  I am using processor group variable as base part of my URL:
> REST_URL=http://localhost:8080/nifi-api
>
> I am trying to append second part of URL in InvokeHTTP regardless if
> REST_URL ends with '/', or not so that concatenation of "
> http://localhost:8080/nifi-api/;, or "http://localhost:8080/nifi-api;
> with "resources" return the same URL: "
> http://localhost:8080/nifi-api/resources":
>
>
> *${${REST_URL}:endsWith('/'):ifElse('${REST_URL}resources','${REST_URL}/resources')}*
>
>
> But the expression always appends '/', so in the first case I end up with 
> *"http://localhost:8080/nifi-api//resources
> "*... Any idea where the error
> is?
>
> Thank you,
>
>
>


expression failure in URL concatenation?

2019-01-31 Thread l vic
I am using processor group variable as base part of my URL:
REST_URL=http://localhost:8080/nifi-api

I am trying to append second part of URL in InvokeHTTP regardless if
REST_URL ends with '/', or not so that concatenation of "
http://localhost:8080/nifi-api/;, or "http://localhost:8080/nifi-api; with
"resources" return the same URL: "http://localhost:8080/nifi-api/resources":

*${${REST_URL}:endsWith('/'):ifElse('${REST_URL}resources','${REST_URL}/resources')}*


But the expression always appends '/', so in the first case I end up
with *"http://localhost:8080/nifi-api//resources
"*... Any idea where the error
is?

Thank you,