Joe and Lars,
I created a Jira ticket for this issue:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-1407
We can continue the conversation there instead two different email threads.
Joe - - - - - - Joseph Percivalllinkedin.com/in/Percivalle:
joeperciv...@yahoo.com
On Sunday, January 10, 2016 4:03 PM, Lars Francke <lars.fran...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Joe,
thanks for the welcome and the (really quick) reply.
My use-case (and again I may use NiFi for things it wasn't intended to) is for
a one-time/initial-import scenario. I have a Processor that I'd like to start
that then calls a Web service and pages through all results creating FlowFiles
and transferring them onwards. When it's reached the end I'd like it to Stop
automatically without being rescheduled.
I'd like to do it this way to maximise code-reuse with other flows (that for
example do incremental imports, a reason I'm excited about the upcoming State
Management) and get the benefits of monitoring etc.
So the feature proposed would work for me (run X times). Has a JIRA for this
been filed that I can track (looked but I couldn't find one)?If I understand
correctly there's currently no way from within a Processor to stop itself?
Cheers,Lars
On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 9:37 PM, Joe Witt <joe.w...@gmail.com> wrote:
Lars,
First, welcome to NiFi.
So you'll initiate the flow from NiFi through some manual trigger and
that part makes sense/sounds straightforward. But then the question
is 'once the flow is done' I'd like it to shut down. What are the
processors/things that begin the flow? We've recently had someone
suggest adding a way to tell a processor to only run 'X' times before
being unscheduled and thus requiring manual start. Sounds like that
might help you with your case as well.
There is little impact to having all the processors after the first
one running. If there is no work to do they'll be quite efficient.
Do you think if a processor had a 'max executions' concept that it
would address your need?
Thanks
Joe
On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 3:32 PM, Lars Francke <lars.fran...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm just getting started with Nifi and understand that I probably still have
> some misconceptions :)
>
> For various reasons I'd love to use NiFi for one-time actions/processors
> which I'd like to trigger as needed from the UI. I've seen the various
> scheduling strategies and the closest I've come is to have a really long run
> schedule or a specific cron schedule.
>
> What I'd really like is a way for a Processor to gracefully stop itself when
> it's done processing.
>
> Is there any way to achieve this?
>
> Thanks for your help
