[NIFI-5228] Allow user to choose whether or not to add File Attributes as FlowFile Attributes when using ListFile

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.7.0
• Component/s: Extensions
• Assignee: Mark Payne
• Reporter: Mark Payne
• Created: 22/May/18 22:04
• Updated: 23/May/18 17:52
• Resolved: 23/May/18 17:51

Description

The FetchFile processor adds several FlowFIle attributes such as the file's owner, last accessed time, creation time, etc. While these certainly can be useful pieces of information and do serve a purpose, they can be expensive to determine in some configurations. In my use case, I have an Azure File Store mounted to an Ubuntu system with CIFS using SMB 3.0. The remote directory that I am listing has 7,000-8,000 files and takes about 3 minutes to perform the listing with ListFile.

Issue Links

• is related to: NIFI-5191 Revert NIFI-4631 since it causes issues with CIFS
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #2733