[jira] [Commented] (NIFI-7572) Add a ScriptedTransformRecord processor

["Otto Fowler (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Otto Fowler commented on NIFI-7572:
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would you want to return a new record rather than work on the record passed in?

> Add a ScriptedTransformRecord processor
> ---------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: NIFI-7572
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-7572
>             Project: Apache NiFi
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Extensions
>            Reporter: Mark Payne
>            Priority: Major
>
> NiFi has started to put a heavier emphasis on Record-oriented processors, as they provide many benefits including better performance and a better UX over their purely byte-oriented counterparts. It is common to see users wanting to transform a Record in some very specific way, but NiFi doesn't make this as easy as it should. There are methods using ExecuteScript, InvokedScriptedProcessor, ScriptedRecordWriter, and ScriptedRecordReader for instance.
> But each of these requires that the Script writer understand a lot about NiFi and how to expose properties, create Property Descriptors, etc. and for fairly simple transformation we end up with scripts where the logic takes fewer lines of code than the boilerplate.
> We should expose a Processor that allows a user to write a script that takes a Record and transforms that Record in some way. The processor should be configured with the following:
>  * Record Reader (required)
>  * Record Writer (required)
>  * Script Language (required)
>  * Script Body or Script File (one and only one of these required)
> The script should implement a single method along the lines of:
> {code:java}
> void transform(Record record) throws Exception; {code}
> The processor should have two relationships: "success" and "failure."
> The script should not be allowed to expose any properties or define any relationships. The point is to keep the script focused purely on processing the record itself.
> It's not entirely clear to me how easy the Record API works with some of the scripting languages. The Record object does expose a method named toMap() that returns a Map<String, Object> containing the underlying key/value pairs. However, the values in that Map may themselves be Records. It might make sense to expose a new method toNormalizedMap() or something along those lines that would return a Map<String, Object> where the values have been recursively normalized, in much the same way that we do for JoltTransformRecord. This would perhaps allow for cleaner syntax, but I'm not a scripting expert so I can't say for sure whether such a method is necessary.



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