[NIFI-3082] PutElasticsearchHttp fails to dequeue item on 5xx response

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.1.0
• Component/s: Extensions
• External issue URL: http://apache-nifi.1125220.n5.nabble.com/PutElasticsearchHttp-error-behaviour-tp13089.html
• Assignee: Matt Burgess
• Reporter: Carson Gaspar
• Created: 22/Nov/16 16:06
• Updated: 12/Dec/16 21:45
• Resolved: 22/Nov/16 20:33

Description

When Elasticsearch returns a 5xx response (e.g. when a field doesn't match the index format), PutElasticsearchHttp does not dequeue the item, causing it to infinitely retry and cause a backlog.

Expected behaviour would be to route the item to either the retry or failed outputs.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1258