Prevent processors from overlapping

[omkaringale]

• Nipyapi version: 0.14.3
• NiFi version: 1.12.1
• NiFi-Registry version: 0.8.0
• Python version: 3.8
• Operating System: Windows 10

Description

Trying to prevent processors from overlapping when I run the code. I want the code to detect if there is already a processor in the location.

What I Did

processor_list = ['GetHTTP','EvaluateJsonPath','AttributesToJSON','PutMongo']
for key,proc in enumerate(processor_list):
            location_y = 300*i
            location_x = 500*(key+1)
            location = (location_x,location_y)

Urgency

Trying to automate a process flow which is still in development phase, so not that urgent

[Chaffelson]

Quite a while back I made a function for this, but forgot to bring it into the main project - actually I'm glad you reminded me.

nipyapi/nipyapi/agents.py

Line 170 in e3f74d1

def suggest_object_position(flow_name):

That's where it is on the current branch if you want to use it directly now, I'll make a note to pull it into the next feature release.

[Chaffelson]

@omkaringale do you have time to look at the implementation I have suggested here to see if it helps your usecase?