https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/How-to-get-the-UUID-of-a-process-group-after-creation-using/m-p/208428#M81432 <P> I am writing a script that will dynamically create a process group with a given name based on user input. I then am wanting to deploy a template inside of this process group immediately after it gets created. Since NiFi generates the UUID for the new process group after the POST to the API, I am stumped on how to get the UUID of the newly created process group. How can I accomplish this so I can then deploy a template inside of it?</P><P> I tried generating a UUID myself for the process group in bash by using `uuidgen` so I could easily track this in a variable, however the POST fails for some reason when I send this along with the name.</P><P> Here is the curl that is failing when I provide a uuid I generated.</P><PRE>curl -k -X POST -v -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"revision":{"clientID":"'$uuid'","version":0},"component":{"name":"'$CLUSTER_NAME' '$FLOW_NAME'"}}' <A href="https://myhost.com:9091/nifi-api/process-groups/$EXISTING_PROCESS_GROUP/process-groups/" target="_blank">https://myhost.com:9091/nifi-api/process-groups/$EXISTING_PROCESS_GROUP/process-groups/</A></PRE><P>If I remove the `clientID` part of the JSON, the POST works and NiFi generates a UUID for me, which results in my original problem.</P> <P></P> Tue, 31 Jul 2018 19:40:27 GMT josh_nicholson 2018-07-31T19:40:27Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/How-to-get-the-UUID-of-a-process-group-after-creation-using/m-p/208428#M81432 <P> I am writing a script that will dynamically create a process group with a given name based on user input. I then am wanting to deploy a template inside of this process group immediately after it gets created. Since NiFi generates the UUID for the new process group after the POST to the API, I am stumped on how to get the UUID of the newly created process group. How can I accomplish this so I can then deploy a template inside of it?</P><P> I tried generating a UUID myself for the process group in bash by using `uuidgen` so I could easily track this in a variable, however the POST fails for some reason when I send this along with the name.</P><P> Here is the curl that is failing when I provide a uuid I generated.</P><PRE>curl -k -X POST -v -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"revision":{"clientID":"'$uuid'","version":0},"component":{"name":"'$CLUSTER_NAME' '$FLOW_NAME'"}}' <A href="https://myhost.com:9091/nifi-api/process-groups/$EXISTING_PROCESS_GROUP/process-groups/" target="_blank">https://myhost.com:9091/nifi-api/process-groups/$EXISTING_PROCESS_GROUP/process-groups/</A></PRE><P>If I remove the `clientID` part of the JSON, the POST works and NiFi generates a UUID for me, which results in my original problem.</P> <P></P> Tue, 31 Jul 2018 19:40:27 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/How-to-get-the-UUID-of-a-process-group-after-creation-using/m-p/208428#M81432 josh_nicholson 2018-07-31T19:40:27Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/How-to-get-the-UUID-of-a-process-group-after-creation-using/m-p/208429#M81433 <P>The response of the POST should be the process group entity with the id populated, and in addition there should be a header that has the URI of the created process group.</P> Tue, 31 Jul 2018 23:43:46 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/How-to-get-the-UUID-of-a-process-group-after-creation-using/m-p/208429#M81433 bbende 2018-07-31T23:43:46Z