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How to handle a json body and file in the same request in NiFi

AlokKumar — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 11:17:28 GMT

Hello I need help how to make a flow which can handle 2 pieces of data from user. Let us consider a scenario-> User submits a form having some fields like name, age, address and also a file having something say a list of his hobbies(just for example). How do we process these together and return a response back?

I have my flow like this HandleHttpRequest->ExecuteScript (Groovy)-> HandleHttpResponse

I am able to do one logic only that either handle the json body say {"name":"Test Name","age":"25","address":"Test address"} or the file which gets sent.
How to process both inside my Groovy Script?

Re: How to handle a json body and file in the same request in NiFi

vafs — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 18:41:36 GMT

Hello @AlokKumar,

Thanks for using Cloudera Community.

As I understand, what you need is to add one more step in your flow:
HandleHttpRequest-> MergeContent -> ExecuteScript (Groovy)-> HandleHttpResponse

Since you have JSON fields and files, you're getting multiple FlowFiles.
So this extra MergeContent phase will combine the JSON and the file into a single FlowFile

On the MergeContent, set Merge Strategy as “Defragment” and set Correlation Attribute Name as http.request.id. that is unique from each HandleHttpRequest