[NIFI-4334] Add Apache Commons Net to scripting NAR

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.0
• Component/s: Extensions
• Assignee: Matt Burgess
• Reporter: Matt Burgess
• Created: 30/Aug/17 19:10
• Updated: 31/Aug/17 07:23
• Resolved: 31/Aug/17 07:23

Description

The scripting NAR, which includes scripting processors, reporting tasks, and controller services, is often used to prototype custom connections to external entities when built-in NiFi support is not yet present. The Apache Commons Net library has a number of clients and utilities that would make such connections easier. At only half an MB in size, it would be nice to add this as a dependency to the scripting NAR such that any scripted solution could leverage these classes. One example could be to prototype an FTPS client to use until NIFI-2278 is implemented.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #2117