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Setting Nifi Sensitive properties from API

rich197 — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 16:20:15 GMT

Good morning.

I am attempting to automate a deployment of nifi. I set all the properties I wished to dynamically configure as Parameters and uploaded the parameters through the API. This included both normal and sensitive parameters. This worked great. Next I attempted to upload a flow into a process group. All normal parameters worked great. However all sensitive parameters did not get set. For example. given a parameter my.password, it was set in the flow property as #{my.password}. So entering it from the GUI one at a time works great, but Every sensitive property set by the import is incorrect. Is there a fix for this or another approach to be able to set the sensitive properties through the api. I would prefer not to call each processor which has sensitive properties individually.

Thanks

Rich

Re: Setting Nifi Sensitive properties from API

MattWho — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 20:09:04 GMT

@rich197

Providing the exact steps you perform to reproduce might help here. I am not clear in this step: "Next I attempted to upload a flow into a process group". Are you trying to upload a template or a flow definition? A flow definition is a Process group containing one or more components. A template can be just a collection of components (Templates are deprecated and removed as of Apache NiFi 2.x)

Thank you,

Matt

Re: Setting Nifi Sensitive properties from API

rich197 — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 16:01:46 GMT

I attempted to upload a flow definition. The documentation states that a template will not retain the sensitive properties but a flow definition is supposed to.