Koji, One could convert date to epoch format which is incremental in nature. Would that help?
On 8 Jun 2017 19:33, "Koji Kawamura" <ijokaruma...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Manoj, > > I think EnforceOrder would not be useful in your case, as it expects > the order to increases one by one (without skip). > As Pierre suggested, I'd suggest using PriorityAttributePrioritizer. > > Thanks, > Koji > > On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 3:50 PM, Pierre Villard > <pierre.villard...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Manoj, > > > > You may want ot have a look at EnforceOrder processor [1] or simply the > > prioritizers [2] of the connections (it depends of how your workflow is > > working). The idea would be to extract the date as an attribute of your > flow > > file, convert into an integer (using expression language) and use it to > > ensure order. > > > > [1] > > https://nifi.apache.org/docs/nifi-docs/components/org. > apache.nifi/nifi-standard-nar/1.2.0/org.apache.nifi.processors.standard. > EnforceOrder/index.html > > [2] > > https://nifi.apache.org/docs/nifi-docs/html/user-guide. > html#prioritization > > > > Hope this helps. > > > > > > 2017-06-08 8:43 GMT+02:00 Manojkumar Ravichandran < > sendmailt...@gmail.com>: > >> > >> Hi All, > >> > >> I need to process the files based on the date time value stored on the > >> attribute > >> > >> For example: > >> > >> If the incoming files contains the following date time attribute values > >> > >> 2017/06/07 16:57:02 > >> 2017/06/06 12:49:49 > >> 2017/06/06 11:09:28 > >> 2017/06/06 06:37:45 > >> > >> I need to process the files based on the order of time that is oldest > one > >> from the current time > >> > >> First I want to access the file that contains below date time attribute > >> which is the oldest one among them from the current time > >> i.e 2017/06/06 06:37:45 > >> and then below one, > >> 2017/06/06 11:09:28 > >> and then this > >> 2017/06/06 12:49:49 > >> so on .... > >> > >> How can I achieve the above mentioned scenario ? > >> > >> Regards, > >> Manoj kumar R > > > > >
