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NiFi - How to Write a Flowfile Attribute to a File

lambkl — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 01:07:09 GMT

I have an XML file which I send to an EvaluateXPath processor. The destination of the EvaluateXPath is flowfile-attribute, and it has one user-defined property with the XPath. I can see that that the attribute has the correct value. Now I would like to write the contents of this attribute to a file on the file system. Does anyone know how to do this?

Re: NiFi - How to Write a Flowfile Attribute to a File

jgeorge — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 01:19:08 GMT

Hi Karri,

The simplest way to do it to convert your attributes to json and then store it. you can use AttributesToJSON processor:

https://nifi.apache.org/docs/nifi-docs/components/org.apache.nifi.processors.standard.AttributesToJSON/index.html

Thanks,

Jobin

Re: NiFi - How to Write a Flowfile Attribute to a File

jpercivall — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 01:19:28 GMT

It would be much easier if you could set the Destination of EvaluateXPath to "flowfile-content". Are you able to do that? If so, do that and then you can do "PutFile" to write the content of the FlowFile to the FileSystem.

Re: NiFi - How to Write a Flowfile Attribute to a File

jpercivall — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 01:28:48 GMT

I don't agree with this answer. All AttributesToJSON would do is wrap the attribute in a JSON object and either put it to another attribute or replace the content. If the user is OK with replacing the content then EvaluateXPath with a destination of "flowfile-content" would be the best. Also it ignores the core question, how to put the value generated by EvaluateXPath to disk.

Re: NiFi - How to Write a Flowfile Attribute to a File

jgeorge — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 12:03:55 GMT

Agreed. But Does EvaluateXPath --> save to flowFile Content give you an option at all to deal with original incoming file? Something like below would do both i guess.

EvaluateXpath(Set to Attributes) [match]--> PutFile/DoSomethingElse

EvaluateXpath(Set to Attributes) [match]--> AttributesToJSON-->PutFIle(AttributesAsContent)

Any suggestion/better way to make it better?

Re: NiFi - How to Write a Flowfile Attribute to a File

lambkl — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 04:14:30 GMT

Thanks. I got this to work using the AttributesToJSON processor.

Re: NiFi - How to Write a Flowfile Attribute to a File

broderick_ellis — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 02:59:25 GMT

how do you get the AttributesAsContent in the PutFile processor?

Re: NiFi - How to Write a Flowfile Attribute to a File

rupeshrp_agarwa — Fri, 26 Apr 2019 19:00:37 GMT

You can use replacetext processor and in place of replacement use the attribute name you want to have in your flow file.

One thing you must keep in mind that attributes are stored in memory.