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  1. Apache NiFi
  2. NIFI-3509

Creating templates of Components created using templates can cause issues

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    • Bug
    • Status: Resolved
    • Critical
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • 1.1.1
    • 1.2.0
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    Description

      Creating templates of components created via a template can result in two components with the same MSB (which should never happen). This causes all sorts of flow related problems including relationships getting messed up.

      Update: The original description was missing some step related to templates. See the comments for more insight.
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      Using the following steps I was able to create a template which instantiates with connections from one input port to another input port of another PG. See the template here[1].

      See the first attached screenshot for the seed flow. After importing, it originally gives an error "Cannot add Connection to Process Group because its destination does not belong to this Process Group" and nothing appears to be added but after I refresh the canvas parts of the original flow appear (screenshot 2 and 3).

      What is most odd, is that there are connections going from the input port "input" of pg "test" to the input ports of other PGs. I didn't think that was possible.

      The steps I used to create it:
      1: create a PG "test" with input port "input", UpdateAttribute and output port "output". Creating connections between them.
      2: Go to Parent group and copy "test".
      3: Go back into "test" and paste.
      4: Copy and paste "test" multiple times, creating the flow.
      5: Create a template of the flow
      6: When using the template, see the issue described.

      The root cause of the issues, I believe, is that the id for the parent group starts with "f3ac1eb5-1010-115a" and when I copied and pasted "test" into itself it created the "test" pg with an id starting with the same value.

      [1] https://gist.github.com/JPercivall/923519ef09500886c50a8f574f7662ca

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          Joe Percivall
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          Joe Percivall
        3. Screen Shot 2017-02-20 at 7.53.34 PM.png
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          Joe Percivall
        4. templatesForNIFI-3509.zip
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          Benjamin Garrett

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              ozhurakousky Oleg Zhurakousky
              jpercivall Joe Percivall
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