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[jira] [Commented] (NIFI-1795) Improve documentation regarding PropertyDescriptor name & displayName

    [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-1795?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=15251117#comment-15251117 ] 

ASF GitHub Bot commented on NIFI-1795:
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GitHub user alopresto opened a pull request:

    https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/373

    NIFI-1795 Temporarily ignored incorrectly failing test

    TestPutUDP#testUnknownHostname.

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Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at:

    https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/373.patch

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commit 993418e29364d32188abdf557c9441c2f18189a2
Author: Andy LoPresto <al...@apache.org>
Date:   2016-04-21T02:13:57Z

    NIFI-1795 Temporarily ignored incorrectly failing TestPutUDP#testUnknownHostname.

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> Improve documentation regarding PropertyDescriptor name & displayName
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: NIFI-1795
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-1795
>             Project: Apache NiFi
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Documentation & Website
>    Affects Versions: 0.6.1
>            Reporter: Andy LoPresto
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 1.0.0, 0.7.0
>
>
> As evidenced in numerous pull requests, developers are often unaware of the behavior of {{PropertyDescriptor}} {{name}} and {{displayName}} attributes. Originally, {{name}} existed and served as both the UI display value for the processor properties configuration dialog and as the unique identifier when writing/reading the properties from file storage. However, a change to the {{name}} value after the flow had been persisted could cause issues retrieving the value from file storage. Thus, {{displayName}} was introduced as the UI display value to allow for backward-compatible updates. The documentation does not sufficiently explain this information and can better encourage developers to provide both {{name}} and {{displayName}} attributes in order to be proactive on flow compatibility and to improve the foundation for internationalization and localization of the UI. 



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