Jim, When you say you want to "avoid having to output them to a temp directory", does that include the content repo? If not you can use UnpackContent with a Packaging Type of zip. I tried on both JARs and NARs and it works.
Regards, Matt On Sun, Dec 31, 2023 at 12:37 PM James McMahon <jsmcmah...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have a NiFi flow that handles many jar and nar archive files as incoming > flowfiles. I am trying to figure out a way I can extract files from these > archives - for example, in most cases one incoming jar has a number of files > in its archive. So one flowfile should yield N output flowfiles if there are > N files in the archive. > > I do not have /usr/bin/jar on my system. I have read, though, that unzip can > be employed to extract from jars, and I have that. So I am trying to use that. > > How can I configure an ExecuteStreamCommand processor to take an incoming > flowfile as stdin, and output each member of the archive as one of N output > flowfiles to stdout? Ideally I want to avoid having to output my streaming > flowfile to a temporary physical directory; I want to perform the extraction > entirely in stream. > > I have used ExecuteStreamCommand before but can't recall how to get it to > work for this use case. > > Thanks for any help.
