[NIFI-5761] ReplaceText processor can stop processing data if it evaluates invalid expressions

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.5.0, 1.7.1
• Fix Version/s: 1.9.0
• Component/s: Extensions
• Environment: ALL
• Flags: Important
• Assignee: Gardella Juan Pablo
• Reporter: Gardella Juan Pablo
• Created: 26/Oct/18 17:48
• Updated: 31/Oct/18 03:31
• Resolved: 31/Oct/18 03:31

Description

Given a flowfile body with nifi expression, when ReplaceText processor evaluates it and the expression throws an exception, the processor will rollback the flowfile and keep trying to evaluate instead of send the flowfile to failure relationshipt.

Discussion Thread: http://apache-nifi-users-list.2361937.n4.nabble.com/ReplaceText-cannot-consume-messages-if-Regex-does-not-match-td5986.html

Issue Links

• relates to: NIFI-5592 ConsumeKafkaRecord* processors can stop pulling data if the data doesn't match the configured schema
• relates to: NIFI-5762 Better data-specific Expression Language exception handling
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #3112