[NIFI-4977] PutSyslog should support Expression Language for it's Sender properties

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.6.0
• Assignee: Joe Percivall
• Reporter: Joe Percivall
• Created: 14/Mar/18 22:07
• Updated: 26/Mar/18 19:52
• Resolved: 26/Mar/18 19:50

Description

As part of the continued effort to add access to the variable registry to processors, the PutSyslog processor should expose expression language to it's sender properties. These properties control where and how the processor sends to. 

This update should better align PutSyslog with the other PutX processors which support EL on the sender properties (Slack, TCP, UDP).

These properties are not evaluated per FlowFile and shouldn't be expected to change between onTriggers (since the sender pool is shared) so it will need to be documented as such that the 

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #2547