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Can global variable be set dynamically in NIFI processorGroup

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I am new to Nifi, I am trying to create a process group which takes an authentication token using get port and makes call to Api. I have used Httpprocessor to fetch the data, after fetching the data I am taking some data, let's say an I'd using EvaluateJSONPath and passing it to a new hero processor to fetch some other data. But I am not able to pass the token that I received at the very start of the process group. Is there any way I can set the token received global for all process in processorgroup ?? We can set a global variable for processorGroup but can it's value be made dynamic instead of static ??

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@Raj Negi
The Process Group variables are not dynamic. Anytime the variable is changed it requires a restart of any component that references it. That is because those components read in that variable value when they are started in a lot of cases.

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Your first dataflow is responsible executing an InvokeHTTP processor to retrieve the token needed for all the different dataflows within the same Process Group. You may consider adding a PutDistributedMapCache processor in that flow to write that retrieved token out to a cache server. In each of your other dataflows you could have a FetchDistributedMapCache processor that pulls that token from the cache server so it is is added to every FlowFile.

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Thank you,

Matt

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