[NIFI-5529] ReplaceText Now Requires Escapes in some cases

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.7.1
• Component/s: Extensions
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Mike Boonstra
• Created: 16/Aug/18 20:55
• Updated: 23/Aug/18 17:53

Description

In some cases in v1.7.1 you need to escape backslashes in property ReplacementValue; like when "Replacement Strategy"="Regex Replace". Whereas in v1.4.0 you didn't. However, when "Replacement Strategy"="Always Replace" it works as it did in v1.4.0. 

So for example if before you had this in v1.4.0:

• "ReplacementValue"=${csvRow:replaceAll(',','\n')}

In v1.7.1 you would need (note the extra backslash):

• "ReplacementValue"=$\{csvRow:replaceAll(',','\\n')}

Issue Links

• is caused by: NIFI-5474 ReplaceText RegexReplace evaluates payload as Expression language