Can anyone explain the WHY of this PutHDFS logic?

2015-11-29 Thread Mark Petronic
This is the sort of "mystery" code that really should have some explicit code comments. :) What are the underlying reasons for this retry logic? This could definitely lead to a bottleneck if this loop has to run and sleep numerous times. Just wondering what, in HDFS, results in the need to do

Re: Nifi startup error after I install my first custom processor

2015-11-20 Thread Mark Petronic
j configuration. Hope I didn't confuse things > more here, let us know. > > [1] > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NIFI/Maven+Projects+for+Extensions#MavenProjectsforExtensions-LinkingProcessorsandControllerServices > > > > On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 1:26 AM, Mark Petro

Re: ERROR [NiFi Web Server-976] c.s.j.spi.container.ContainerResponse Mapped exception to response: 500 (Internal Server Error)

2015-11-04 Thread Mark Petronic
This issue [1] has been addressed and is currently > > waiting for review before it can be merged. > > > > Thanks! > > > > Matt > > > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-1098 > > > > On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 10:58 AM, Mark Petronic <

Re: LogAttribute - Sending that output to a custom logger?

2015-11-02 Thread Mark Petronic
fine. There are others ways I can contribute in the future. I'm still having fun! :) On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 12:41 PM, Joe Witt <joe.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > Mark Petronic, > > I share Payne's perspective on this. But I'd also like to work with > you to better understa

LogAttribute - Sending that output to a custom logger?

2015-10-31 Thread Mark Petronic
>From the code, it appears it cannot be done as the attribute logging goes the same getLogger() instance as the normal nifi-app traces. Has anyone considered making that configurable, maybe allowing you do define a different logger name for LogAttribute then creating that logger definition in log

Re: Recommendation on getting started as a contibutor

2015-10-27 Thread Mark Petronic
On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 6:55 AM, Oleg Zhurakousky wrote: > I was just able to reproduce your exact error by disassociating it from the > class path Oleg, thanks for the response. 1. I verified that my working directory is correct and points to my running version

Re: Recommendation on getting started as a contibutor

2015-10-26 Thread Mark Petronic
On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 5:06 AM, Oleg Zhurakousky wrote: > nifi-ide-integration Oleg, thanks for the nifi-ide-integration github. I was able to get up and running in the debugger in Eclipse pretty easy with this. I did have to add this to my VM args in my run

Re: Recommendation on getting started as a contibutor

2015-10-26 Thread Mark Petronic
wiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NIFI/Contributor+Guide is a > good starting point for general questions and FAQs about contributions and > it does provide instructions on how to run NiFi in DEBUG mode (specifically > in Eclipse). > > Hope this helps, otherwise let us know. > > Ch

Re: Recommendation on getting started as a contibutor

2015-10-26 Thread Mark Petronic
Thanks for the tips Venkatesh Hi Mark, Welcome. I am a newbie to the project myself and therefore some of the tricks i used are fresh in my mind. (though i use intellij). I suspect a key differentiator here is the use of Maven , which is completely different from Ant and in a good way for the

Recommendation on getting started as a contibutor

2015-10-25 Thread Mark Petronic
Hey guys, I read through the developers guide and am interested in maybe trying my hand at contributing to an OSS project for the first time. I'm pretty interested in Nifi. I've done a good bit of Java programming using Eclipse and Ant for a multi-threaded HTTP proxy-like application that uses