[jira] [Created] (MINIFICPP-1472) Separate API and utility libraries from minifi-core

["Ferenc Gerlits (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Ferenc Gerlits created MINIFICPP-1472:
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             Summary: Separate API and utility libraries from minifi-core
                 Key: MINIFICPP-1472
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MINIFICPP-1472
             Project: Apache NiFi MiNiFi C++
          Issue Type: New Feature
            Reporter: Ferenc Gerlits


Currently, extensions depend on {{minifi-core}}, which contains (almost) everything under {{libminifi}}.[1]

We should separate out a {{minifi-extension-api}} library and a {{minifi-extension-utils}} library, and make sure only these are used by the extensions (and leave the rest in {{minifi-core}}).  The idea is that
 * the {{api}} library would be stable (can only be broken at major releases);
 * the {{utils}} library is mainly aimed at our own extensions, and it could change at each release – but users are free to use it if they are willing to recompile for every release.

For this step, the new libraries can remain static.

TODO: this task may need to be broken down further.

 

[1] the one thing it doesn't is {{ProcessorUtils}}, for no clear reason (probably history); that can be moved inside {{minifi-core}} as the first step of this task



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