Mike, I think the ask here is for this CS to support variable registry
values. IIRC, there are other cases in NiFi where EL is not supported, but
VR is. A fair request, IMO.
Supporting a full EL for the keystore/truststore path is a bad idea, no
doubt.
Do you agree?
Andrew
On Tue, Feb 19, 2019, 3:33 AM Mike Thomsen <mikerthom...@gmail.com> wrote:
> When expression language is not supported by a field, it won't accept any
> variables.
>
> Mike
>
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 10:34 PM Beutel, Maximilian <
> maximilian.beu...@credit-suisse.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>>
>>
>> Also asked the question on IRC, but figured the mailing list might be
>> better for this longer question.
>>
>>
>>
>> For an InvokeHTTP processor I defined a SSL Context Service. In the SSL
>> Context Service, in Keystore Filename property, I’d like to use a variable
>> which I defined in a nifi.registry file. So in my nifi.properties I have:
>>
>>
>>
>> nifi.variable.registry.properties=./conf/custom.properties
>>
>>
>>
>> And in the conf/custom.properties I have:
>>
>>
>>
>> nifi.system.properties.file=C:/Users/some.file
>>
>>
>>
>> And in the field Keystore Filename in the SSL Context Service I input:
>>
>>
>>
>> ${nifi.system.properties.file}
>>
>>
>>
>> But then saving the SSL Context Service doesn’t work anymore, the
>> validation fails and says “${nifi.system.properties.file} does not exist”.
>> The actual file does exist however, but I suspect that the variable doesn’t
>> get interpolated.
>>
>>
>>
>> According to
>> https://nifi.apache.org/docs/nifi-docs/components/org.apache.nifi/nifi-ssl-context-service-nar/1.5.0/org.apache.nifi.ssl.StandardSSLContextService/index.html
>> it seems like expression language is not supported for Keystore Filename
>> property. Does this also imply that variables won’t work in that field?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks for your help!
>>
>>
>>
>> Max
>>
>>
>>
>>
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