Ashish As Joe pointed out, while “possible”, at the moment we don’t expose a direct public API to accomplish that. When I say “possible” I am of course referring to the internal API that is used by NIFi (NIFI UI that is) to wire up flows, but at the moment it is neither public nor it is the preferred approach. That said, I am still wondering as to “what" is the issue you are experiencing? I mean you are clearly describing what you want to do, but I am missing the “why” part. Please don’t take it the wrong way. . . You may very well have legitimate reasons to do what you need to do. All we are trying to do is to understand those reasons so we in the NiFi community can determine if it is indeed a missing yet valuable feature we can/should put on the road map.
Cheers Oleg > On Sep 28, 2016, at 7:49 AM, Ashish Agarwal 10 <aagarwa...@sapient.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > I am using Nifi 0.7.0. > I want to create the template of the processor groups. > Instead of creating it from UI. I want to design a flow that creates a > processor group template based on its id, download it and store it somewhere > locally. > Is it possible ? If yes, Is there any method/api available for the same? > > Thanks You > Ashish Agarwal > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joe Witt [mailto:joe.w...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2016 6:06 PM > To: users@nifi.apache.org > Subject: Re: Create NiFi Templates > > Ashish, > > If the question is 'at runtime what are the ways I could trigger the > creation of a NiFI template?' > > You could call the REST API endpoint using some mechanism other than > the NiFi UI or you could use the NiFi UI. > > If the question is 'can I programmatically create a template during > development time?' > > We don't have any direct public API's to accomplish this that I am > aware of though it is an interesting idea. > > Can you help direct us to where you're more interested right now so we > can help most effectively. > > Thanks > Joe > > On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 8:31 AM, Oleg Zhurakousky > <ozhurakou...@hortonworks.com> wrote: >> Ashish >> >> I am not sure I fully understand the question. . . >> Templates represented as an XML file and therefore if you “type everything >> correctly” you’ll get a working template, but it would be simpler to use >> NIFI UI as a design tool to do the same. >> Could you please clarify more as to what exactly are you trying to >> accomplish? >> >> Cheers >> Oleg >> >> On Sep 27, 2016, at 3:06 AM, Ashish Agarwal 10 <aagarwa...@sapient.com> >> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> Is there a way to create a template of a process group other than the button >> present on UI ? >> >> Regards, >> Ashish Agarwal >> >>
