Summary
Apache NiFi supports a large number of extension components for integrating with a variety of products and services. Over the course of product development, some services reach end of life and some components no longer represent the best implementation approach.
Apache NiFi 1.18.0 and following include deprecation logging written to nifi-deprecation.log indicating runtime references to deprecated components and features. Generated documentation and runtime logging provide the most accurate information on deprecated components and features for a given deployment.
Deprecated Components
| Name | Type | Version | Alternatives |
|---|---|---|---|
| AmbariReportingTask | Reporting Task | 1.21.0 | |
| Base64EncodeContent | Processor | 1.20.0 | EncodeContent |
| ConsumeEWS | Processor | 1.20.0 | |
| ConsumeKafka_1_0 | Processor | 1.21.0 | ConsumeKafka_2_6 |
| ConsumeKafkaRecord_1_0 | Processor | 1.21.0 | ConsumeKafkaRecord_2_6 |
| ExecuteFlumeSink | Processor | 1.19.0 | |
| ExecuteFlumeSource | Processor | 1.19.0 | |
| ExtractCCDAAttributes | Processor | 1.20.0 | |
| FetchElasticsearchHttp | Processor | 1.16.0 | GetElasticsearch |
| GetHTTP | Processor | 1.9.0 | InvokeHTTP |
| GetJMSQueue | Processor | 1.3.0 | ConsumeJMS |
| GetJMSTopic | Processor | 1.3.0 | ConsumeJMS |
| GetTwitter | Processor | 1.17.0 | ConsumeTwitter |
| DeleteAzureBlobStorage | Processor | 1.19.0 | DeleteAzureBlobStorage_v12 |
| FetchAzureBlobStorage | Processor | 1.19.0 | FetchAzureBlobStorage_v12 |
| HiveConnectionPool | Controller Service | 1.19.0 | Hive3ConnectionPool |
| Hive_1_1ConnectionPool | Controller Service | 1.19.0 | Hive3ConnectionPool |
| HashAttribute | Processor | 1.21.0 | CryptographicHashAttribute |
| HashContent | Processor | 1.8.0 | CryptographicHashContent |
| HortonworksSchemaRegistry | Controller Service | 1.20.0 | |
| ListAzureBlobStorage | Processor | 1.19.0 | ListAzureBlobStorage_v12 |
| OAuth2TokenProviderImpl | Controller Service | 1.16.0 | StandardOauth2AccessTokenProvider |
| PostHTTP | Processor | 1.9.0 | InvokeHTTP |
| PublishKafka_1_0 | Processor | 1.21.0 | PublishKafka_2_6 |
| PublishKafkaRecord_1_0 | Processor | 1.21.0 | PublishKafkaRecord_2_6 |
| PutAzureBlobStorage | Processor | 1.19.0 | PutAzureBlobStorage_v12 |
| PutBigQueryBatch | Processor | 1.18.0 | PutBigQuery |
| PutBigQueryStreaming | Processor | 1.18.0 | PutBigQuery |
| PutElasticsearchHttp | Processor | 1.16.0 | PutElasticsearchJson |
| PutElasticsearchHttpRecord | Processor | 1.16.0 | PutElasticsearchRecord |
| PutHiveQL | Processor | 1.19.0 | PutHive3QL |
| PutHive_1_1QL | Processor | 1.19.0 | PutHive3QL |
| PutHiveStreaming | Processor | 1.19.0 | PutHive3Streaming |
| PutJMS | Processor | 1.3.0 | PublishJMS |
| QueryElasticsearchHttp | Processor | 1.15.0 | PaginatedJsonQueryElasticsearch |
| ScrollElasticsearchHttp | Processor | 1.15.0 | SearchElasticsearch |
| SelectHiveQL | Processor | 1.19.0 | SelectHive3QL |
| SelectHive_1_1QL | Processor | 1.19.0 | SelectHive3QL |
| UpdateHiveTable | Processor | 1.19.0 | UpdateHive3Table |
| UpdateHive_1_1Table | Processor | 1.19.0 | UpdateHive3Table |
Deprecated Features
| Class | Feature | Version | Alternatives |
|---|---|---|---|
| org.apache.nifi.processor.ProcessContext | encrypt and decrypt Methods | 1.20.0 | No alternatives: new implementation required |
| org.apache.nifi.nar.hadoop.HDFSNarProvider | NAR Resource Retrieval | 1.17.0 | org.apache.nifi.flow.resource.hadoop.HDFSExternalResourceProvider |
| org.apache.nifi.processors.hadoop.ListHDFS | Distributed Cache Service Property | 1.9.0 | No alternatives: property no longer used |
| org.apache.nifi.provenance.PersistentProvenanceRepository | Provenance Repository | 1.8.0 | org.apache.nifi.provenance.WriteAheadProvenanceRepository |
| org.apache.nifi.serialization.RecordSetWriterFactory | createWriter Method without FlowFile | 1.10.0 | createWriter Method with FlowFile |
| org.apache.nifi.controller.repository.RocksDBFlowFileRepository | FlowFile Repository | 1.17.0 | org.apache.nifi.controller.repository.WriteAheadFlowFileRepository |
| org.apache.nifi.schemaregistry.services.SchemaRegistry | retrieveSchemaText Methods | 1.6.0 | retrieveSchema Method |
| org.apache.nifi.security.util.crypto.NiFiLegacyCipherProvider | Cipher Provider | 0.5.0 | org.apache.nifi.security.util.crypto.PBKDF2CipherProvider |
| org.apache.nifi.ssl.SSLContextService | createSSLContext Methods | 1.13.0 | createContext Method |
| org.apache.nifi.processors.standard.EncryptContent | PGP encryption and decryption properties | 1.19.0 | EncryptContentPGP and DecryptContentPGP Processors |
| org.apache.nifi.processors.standard.InvokeHTTP | Proxy Host and Port properties | 1.18.0 | Proxy Configuration Service Property |
| org.apache.nifi.registry.VariableRegistry | Variable Registry | 1.10.0 | Parameter Contexts |
| org.apache.nifi.controller.XmlFlowSynchronizer | XML Flow Configuration stored as flow.xml.gz | 1.16.0 | JSON Flow Configuration stored as flow.json.gz |
| org.apache.nifi.persistence.TemplateDeserializer | XML Flow Templates | 1.14.0 | JSON Flow Definitions |