You should be able to set the message delimiter in ListenTCP with the
"Message Delimiter" property. The default is \n. I don't believe there's a
great way to see how data is being interpreted other than using interactive
debug mode with NiFi set through the bootstrap.conf.

On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 9:29 PM Breno Cesar <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> First of all i apologize for my english, and thank you very much for your
> answers.
> The data type i need is a data stream, which starts when the ipdr protocol
> connect process ends.
> Is there any way to change the line terminator?  or somehow see how nifi
> is interpreting the data when It its received ?
>
> Em qua., 9 de fev. de 2022 22:31, Joe Witt <[email protected]> escreveu:
>
>> Correct.  With both ListenTCP and ListenTCPRecord it listens for data and
>> needs some way of framing them to generate records/bundles of data as
>> flowfiles.
>>
>> What kind of data do you want to listen for?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 6:26 PM Michael Loftis <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> ListenTCP isn’t fit for ingesting arbitrary data. It’s record oriented,
>>> default separator is Unix newline “\n”. I don’t think it will generate a
>>> flow if it never receives a newline before the connection closes.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 18:17 Breno Cesar <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> i'm tring to receive a tcp stream using the listentcp module, but when
>>>> the connection start, i see the traffic reaching my server (usgin tcpdump),
>>>> but the nifi does note generate a flow file.
>>>> Ther is no error ow warning in the module or in the nifi cluster.
>>>> Changing in the processor the bulleting level to "debug" , i can see
>>>> the following message for every package that i receive:
>>>>
>>>> SPOLPAVMW131:8080ListenTCP[id=e083186d-017e-1000-0000-000040efa66e]
>>>> Accepted incoming connection from /192.0.2.12:55209
>>>> SPOLPAVMW131:8080ListenTCP[id=e083186d-017e-1000-0000-000040efa66e]
>>>> bytes read 46
>>>> SPOLPAVMW131:8080ListenTCP[id=e083186d-017e-1000-0000-000040efa66e] No
>>>> more data available, returning for selection
>>>> SPOLPAVMW131:8080ListenTCP[id=e083186d-017e-1000-0000-000040efa66e]
>>>> Reached EOF, closing connection
>>>>
>>>> bellow is the same message, but in the tcpdump format.
>>>>
>>>> Internet Protocol Version 4, Src: 192.0.2.12, Dst: 192.0.2.128
>>>> Transmission Control Protocol, Src Port:  55209  , Dst Port: 4737, Seq:
>>>> 1, Ack: 1, Len: 46
>>>>     Source Port:  55209
>>>>     Destination Port: 4737
>>>>     <Source or Destination Port:  55209  >
>>>>     <Source or Destination Port: 4737>
>>>>     [Stream index: 0]
>>>>     [TCP Segment Len: 46]
>>>>     Sequence number: 1    (relative sequence number)
>>>>     Sequence number (raw): 3765145522
>>>>     [Next sequence number: 47    (relative sequence number)]
>>>>     Acknowledgment number: 1    (relative ack number)
>>>>     Acknowledgment number (raw): 274707205
>>>>     0101 .... = Header Length: 20 bytes (5)
>>>>     Flags: 0x018 (PSH, ACK)
>>>>     Window size value: 10000
>>>>     [Calculated window size: 10000]
>>>>     [Window size scaling factor: 1]
>>>>     Checksum: 0x5fd7 [unverified]
>>>>     [Checksum Status: Unverified]
>>>>     Urgent pointer: 0
>>>>     [SEQ/ACK analysis]
>>>>     [Timestamps]
>>>>     TCP payload (46 bytes)
>>>>     [PDU Size: 46]
>>>> IPDR
>>>>     Version: 2
>>>>     Message id: CONNECT (5)
>>>>     Session id: 0
>>>>     Message flags: 0x00
>>>>     Message length: 46
>>>>     Initiator id: 0.0.0.0
>>>>     Initiator port: 0
>>>>     Capabilities: 0x00000006
>>>>     Keep-alive interval: 90
>>>>     Vendor id: ARRIS E6000 Exporter
>>>>
>>>> Here somethings that i tried:
>>>>
>>>>  - Increase the number of simultaneos connections and batch size, but
>>>> it does not change at all.
>>>>  - Use listentcprecord but the behavior is the same, it only change
>>>> when i select the avroreader, then i got an error informing that is a
>>>> "wrong data format".
>>>>
>>>> So i belive that nifi is receving the messages that come from tcp , but
>>>> for some reason is not generating flowfiles.
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone got same behavior ?
>>>> There is anything else that i can do ?
>>>>
>>>> i'm using nifi 1.15.3 with a 4 nodes cluster.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Breno
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>
>>> "Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its
>>> possessors
>>> into trouble of all kinds."
>>> -- Samuel Butler
>>>
>>

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