Add hidden show capability to sensitive text-area boxes

[Ramakrishnan Venkatachalam <ra...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

In controller-services, for ex: HiveConnectionPool there is a property
called "Password". One of our clients who use  nifi wish to add the
capability of hidden show (input type="password"). I understand property
list table is dynamically populated using jquery (please correct me if am
wrong).

Below is what i suggest:

When we mention like below in this case for password property:

public static final PropertyDescriptor DB_PASSWORD = new
PropertyDescriptor.Builder().name("hive-db-password")
            .displayName("Password")
            .description("The password for the database user")
            .defaultValue(null)
            .required(false)
            .sensitive(true)
            .addValidator(StandardValidators.NON_EMPTY_VALIDATOR)
            .build();

i suggest to add

 .hiddenshow(true) (or any other name)

so that frame work can add an jquery and css appropriately to build the
password like hidden show nature: "***********" ( we can even replace the
textarea tag to input type='password> ) only for these cases.


I would like to your views on this..

Thanks
Ramakrishnan V

Re: Add hidden show capability to sensitive text-area boxes

[Andrew Grande <ap...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

NiFi never pulls sensitive valued to the UI once set, it's a one-way
operation only. Today, the UI has a hint 'sensitive value is set' to
indicate it's not empty. Maybe you can provide more background on what you
are trying to achieve in that context?

Thanks,
Andrew

On Sun, Feb 12, 2017, 7:43 AM Ramakrishnan Venkatachalam <
ramkrish9198@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In controller-services, for ex: HiveConnectionPool there is a property
> called "Password". One of our clients who use  nifi wish to add the
> capability of hidden show (input type="password"). I understand property
> list table is dynamically populated using jquery (please correct me if am
> wrong).
>
> Below is what i suggest:
>
> When we mention like below in this case for password property:
>
> public static final PropertyDescriptor DB_PASSWORD = new
> PropertyDescriptor.Builder().name("hive-db-password")
>             .displayName("Password")
>             .description("The password for the database user")
>             .defaultValue(null)
>             .required(false)
>             .sensitive(true)
>             .addValidator(StandardValidators.NON_EMPTY_VALIDATOR)
>             .build();
>
> i suggest to add
>
>  .hiddenshow(true) (or any other name)
>
> so that frame work can add an jquery and css appropriately to build the
> password like hidden show nature: "***********" ( we can even replace the
> textarea tag to input type='password> ) only for these cases.
>
>
> I would like to your views on this..
>
> Thanks
> Ramakrishnan V
>