Parameter Providers support

[jjw24]

• Nipyapi version: v0.19.1
• NiFi version: v1.22.0
• NiFi-Registry version: N/A
• Python version: N/A
• Operating System: N/A

Description

Hi there, would you be keen to do a new release for Parameter Provider API support?

Current release v0.19.1 supports NiFi 1.17, Parameter Provider is introduced in NiFi 1.18 and I see you have added the methods from their spec:

Would you have time to release this out?

Urgency

This is critical as it is blocking our production environment, which takes advantage of the Parameter Providers available to connect to services like Vault.

[Chaffelson]

Hi Jeremy - there is currently a PR to bring the API up to 1.23.2 which we are testing. Would like to give that a spin to see if it fits your needs?

[jjw24]

Hi there, please correct me if I am wrong, a quick glance on this repo's main branch and the mentioned PR's branch it looks like the method to create a Parameter Provider is missing?

With the PR I have tested the ParameterProvidersApi's get_parameter_provider to be working as expected.

[Chaffelson]

It sounds like you've found the NiFi low-level API calls, but you'd like a helper method in parameters.py?

Generally the helper methods are implemented when I have a use case and a suitable test to work from. If you can use the low level API calls for now that is great, if you would like to implement a helper method or can provide a sketch of what is needed we could possibly add it.

[jjw24]

I am ok to use the low-level API calls and can PR if I get around to creating the helper methods.

What I found though, is that there is no low-level API call to actually create a Parameter Provider, could you possibly point me to the code if not the case please.

[Chaffelson]

Looking at the release documentation, a Parameter Provider is a Controller service Here is a blog from NiFi legend Bryan about it: https://bryanbende.com/development/2022/09/24/apache-nifi-1-18-0-parameter-providers