A new contributor raised some good questions on a PR:
https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/7169
I rebased this branch as we discussed in the original PR, but I see that
meantime NiFi code become much more dependent on DateFormat. I see many
public methods in DataTypeUtils taking or returning DateF
Mike,
Thanks for bringing this up for discussion. One of the approved NiFi 2.0
Release Goals was upgrading internal Java API references [1] including
moving to java.time components over java.util.Date. Jira Epic NIFI-9458 [2]
is a general issue to cover this work.
With that as background, moving
