[NIFI-3389] FlowFileSchema writes attribute name and value as STRING instead of LONG_STRING

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.1.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.2.0
• Labels: regression
• Assignee: Bryan Rosander
• Reporter: Bryan Rosander
• Created: 24/Jan/17 14:19
• Updated: 14/Feb/17 19:28
• Resolved: 14/Feb/17 18:04

Description

This causes errors when the names or values of attributes exceeds 65535 bytes when encoded as UTF-8.

The fix would be pretty trivial but it has backwards compatibility implications and the schema will need to be versioned to still be able to read old flow files.

Issue Links

• is related to: NIFI-3055 StandardRecordWriter can throw UTFDataFormatException
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1446