[NIFI-9684] Starting a PG starts RPGs in sibling PGs as well

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.16.0
• Assignee: Tamas Palfy
• Reporter: Tamas Palfy
• Created: 14/Feb/22 16:01
• Updated: 24/May/22 16:28
• Resolved: 15/Feb/22 19:55

Description

Issue

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-7788 introduced the change that whenever a user starts an entire process group, all remote process groups within get transmission enabled.

This works properly if the user is within the process group and issues a start by right-clicking on the canvas.

However if the user does does this by right-clicking on the process group (while being in its parent group), all remote process groups start transmitting within the parent process group. This issue is also true when stopping the process group.

Root cause

The 2 cases (right clicking on the canvas vs on the process group) is handled differently in nf-actions.js. When doing the latter the id of the parent of the selected process group (aka. the current active process group) is sent via the REST interface.

Solution

Send the id of the selected process group

Issue Links

• is caused by: NIFI-7788 Start and Stop actions on a Process Group should enable/disable transmission of RPG's
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #5764