[NIFI-7142] Automatically handle schema drift in the PutKudu processor

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.11.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.12.0, 1.11.3
• Assignee: Grant Henke
• Reporter: Grant Henke
• Created: 13/Feb/20 15:18
• Updated: 01/Feb/21 15:24
• Resolved: 18/Feb/20 20:34

Description

When ingesting data via NiFi often there are new fields that are not in the Kudu table. For example this could happen as a result of ingesting json into Kudu.

This jira tracks adding an option to automatically alter a kudu table adding new columns when they are encountered.

Issue Links

• is related to: NIFI-8185 IllegalArgumentException thrown by PutKudu processor when using drift feature with record path feature
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #4053