diff --git a/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-hadoop-bundle/nifi-hdfs-processors/src/main/resources/docs/org.apache.nifi.processors.hadoop.CreateHadoopSequenceFile/additionalDetails.html b/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-hadoop-bundle/nifi-hdfs-processors/src/main/resources/docs/org.apache.nifi.processors.hadoop.CreateHadoopSequenceFile/additionalDetails.html index b8bf7c2d99..9f754a0724 100644 --- a/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-hadoop-bundle/nifi-hdfs-processors/src/main/resources/docs/org.apache.nifi.processors.hadoop.CreateHadoopSequenceFile/additionalDetails.html +++ b/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-hadoop-bundle/nifi-hdfs-processors/src/main/resources/docs/org.apache.nifi.processors.hadoop.CreateHadoopSequenceFile/additionalDetails.html @@ -23,24 +23,70 @@ -

Description:

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This processor is used to create a Hadoop Sequence File, which essentially is a file of key/value pairs. The key - will be a file name and the value will be the flow file content. The processor will take either a merged (a.k.a. packaged) flow - file or a singular flow file. Historically, this processor handled the merging by type and size or time prior to creating a +

Description

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+ This processor is used to create a Hadoop Sequence File, which essentially is a file of key/value pairs. The key + will be a file name and the value will be the flow file content. The processor will take either a merged (a.k.a. packaged) flow + file or a singular flow file. Historically, this processor handled the merging by type and size or time prior to creating a SequenceFile output; it no longer does this. If creating a SequenceFile that contains multiple files of the same type is desired, precede this processor with a RouteOnAttribute processor to segregate files of the same type and follow that with a - MergeContent processor to bundle up files. If the type of files is not important, just use the - MergeContent processor. When using the MergeContent processor, the following Merge Formats are + MergeContent processor to bundle up files. If the type of files is not important, just use the + MergeContent processor. When using the MergeContent processor, the following Merge Formats are supported by this processor: -

- The created SequenceFile is named the same as the incoming FlowFile with the suffix '.sf'. For incoming FlowFiles that are - bundled, the keys in the SequenceFile are the individual file names, the values are the contents of each file. -

- NOTE: The value portion of a key/value pair is loaded into memory. While there is a max size limit of 2GB, this could cause memory - issues if there are too many concurrent tasks and the flow file sizes are large. - - + + The created SequenceFile is named the same as the incoming FlowFile with the suffix '.sf'. For incoming FlowFiles that are + bundled, the keys in the SequenceFile are the individual file names, the values are the contents of each file. +

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+ NOTE: The value portion of a key/value pair is loaded into memory. While there is a max size limit of 2GB, this could cause memory + issues if there are too many concurrent tasks and the flow file sizes are large. +

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Using Compression

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+ The value of the Compression codec property determines the compression library the processor uses to compress content. + Third party libraries are used for compression. These third party libraries can be Java libraries or native libraries. + In case of native libraries, the path of the parent folder needs to be in an environment variable called LD_LIBRARY_PATH so that NiFi can find the libraries. +

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Example: using Snappy compression with native library on CentOS

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  1. + Snappy compression needs to be installed on the server running NiFi: +
    + sudo yum install snappy +
    +
    2. +
  2. + Suppose that the server running NiFi has the native compression libraries in /opt/lib/hadoop/lib/native . + (Native libraries have file extensions like .so, .dll, .lib, etc. depending on the platform.) +
    + We need to make sure that the files can be executed by the NiFi process' user. For this purpose we can make a copy of these files + to e.g. /opt/nativelibs and change their owner. If NiFi is executed by nifi user in the nifi group, then: +
    + chown nifi:nifi /opt/nativelibs +
    + chown nifi:nifi /opt/nativelibs/* +
    +
    3. +
  3. + The LD_LIBRARY_PATH needs to be set to contain the path to the folder /opt/nativelibs. +
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    4. +
  4. + NiFi needs to be restarted. +
    5. +
  5. + Compression codec property can be set to SNAPPY and a Compression type can be selected. +
    6. +
  6. + The processor can be started. +
    7. +
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