[NIFI-830] For GET requests, InvokeHTTP should set the filename of the 'Response' FlowFile based on the URL

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.16.0
• Component/s: Extensions
• Labels: beginner newbie
• Assignee: Nandor Soma Abonyi
• Reporter: Mark Payne
• Created: 08/Aug/15 00:24
• Updated: 15/Nov/21 13:47
• Resolved: 15/Nov/21 13:47

Description

When using InvokeHTTP to fetch the content of a particular URL, I expected that the filename of the 'Response' FlowFile would be set to the filename pulled. I.e., if I pulled http://www.somesite.com/images/1.png, I would have expected the 'Response' FlowFile to have a filename of "1.png" but instead it had the same filename as the incoming FlowFile.

I don't think this is something that we can change until version 1.0.0 because it could potentially break backward compatibility of flows by changing the filename unexpectedly. In the meantime, I have added an UpdateAttribute to set the filename to ${url:substringAfterLast('/'):substringBefore('?')}

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #5475