[NIFI-6851] Improve Provenance RECEIVE and FETCH events to allow for specifics on how flowfile was RECEIVE'ed/FETCH'ed

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Patch Available
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.10.0
• Component/s: Core Framework
• Assignee: Michael Hogue
• Reporter: Nissim Shiman
• Created: 06/Nov/19 19:04
• Updated: 11/May/21 00:07

Description

Currently there is no way to know if a Provenance RECEIVE or FETCH event is the result of an active (i.e. GetFTP, FetchFTP, GetHTTP), passive (i.e. ListenHTTP)  or query (i.e. GetMongo) event.

There was a discussion on the dev mailing lists regarding the most graceful way to do this [1] [2], 

 

At this time the smoothest path forward is to keep the current method signatures of receive() and fetch() as is in ProvenanceReporter.java [3]

and to add new fetch() and receive()'s with a new parameter:
receive(...,ACTIVE|PASSIVE|QUERY)

If not specified it would be UNSPECIFIED. 

(Thank You joewitt for this solution)

 

 

[1] https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/nifi-dev/201910.mbox/browser , topic of PULL ProvenanceEvent

[2] https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/nifi-dev/201911.mbox/browser , topic of Re: PULL ProvenanceEvent

[3] https://github.com/apache/nifi/blob/master/nifi-api/src/main/java/org/apache/nifi/provenance/ProvenanceReporter.java

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #3930