[GitHub] nifi pull request: NIFI-1578: Create PutSlack processor

[adamonduty <gi...@git.apache.org>]

Github user adamonduty commented on the pull request:

    https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/256#issuecomment-206686328
  
    @joewitt I'm only now just realizing that my reply to your comment was in the wrong place. Here's my reply which I originally made on the JIRA:
    
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    My use case around PutSlack at this point is pretty simple. Basically the same use cases around PutEmail, but sending to a Slack channel instead of an email distribution list. This allows teams to keep an eye on their dataflows in a natural place, especially since many other Slack integrations exist (Jenkins, github, etc).
    
    To configure PutSlack, a Slack user (or maybe admin) has to add the Incoming Webhooks integration to the Slack team, then add a webhook to a specific channel. Once the user has the URL associated with this webhook, they drop the URL into PutSlack along with a webhook text template.
    
    Does that help? The use cases would probably also increase with a GetSlack processor, which when paired with PutSlack could allow one to manually trigger flows in NiFi via a chat bot.
    
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    Also, just to be clear, the Travis build above failed on JDK8 due to an out of memory exception unrelated to PutSlack. 


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