[NIFI-9591] Remove Kite Processors

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.16.0
• Component/s: Extensions
• Assignee: David Handermann
• Reporter: David Handermann
• Created: 19/Jan/22 14:51
• Updated: 25/Mar/22 14:17
• Resolved: 19/Jan/22 16:25

Description

The Kite project has not been updated for several years and the latest version of the Kite library available in Maven Central is dated 2015. For this reason, the Kite Processors should be removed.

The nifi-kite-processors module includes a dependency on hive-hcatalog-core, which uses a version number based on the hive.version property in the Maven configuration.  The default version of 1.2.1 does not include any Log4j 2 dependencies, but changing the hive.version property to 3.1.2 introduces several dependencies on Log4j 2 libraries, including log4j-core. Removing the Kite Processors will resolve this build problem, which is not directly related to Hive 3 components.

Issue Links

• supercedes: NIFI-9128 Refactor nifi-kite-bundle to use JUnit 5
• supercedes: NIFI-397 Address unit tests marked as @Ignore for Kite processors
• supercedes: NIFI-1350 Kite Processors can use incorrect configuration files
• supercedes: NIFI-2409 the dataset url says is invalid, even though it is a valid dataset url
• supercedes: NIFI-3542 Remove nifi-hadoop-libraries-nar as a dependency of nifi-kite-nar
• supercedes: NIFI-739 Update Kite storage processor to cache writers
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #5674