InvokeHTTP

Description:

An HTTP client processor which converts FlowFile attributes to HTTP headers, with configurable HTTP method, url, etc.

Tags: http, https, rest, client

Properties:

In the list below, the names of required properties appear in bold. Anyother properties (not in bold) are considered optional. The table also indicates any default values, whether a property supports the NiFi Expression Language (or simply EL), and whether a property is considered "sensitive", meaning that its value will be encrypted. Before entering a value in a sensitive property, ensure that the nifi.properties file has an entry for the property nifi.sensitive.props.key.

Name	Description	Default Value	Valid Values	EL	Sensitive
HTTP Method	HTTP request method (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS).	GET		Yes	No
Remote URL	Remote URL which will be connected to, including scheme, host, port, path.			Yes	No
SSL Context Service	The SSL Context Service used to provide client certificate information for TLS/SSL (https) connections.			No	No
Connection Timeout	Max wait time for connection to remote service.	5 secs		No	No
Read Timeout	Max wait time for response from remote service.	15 secs		No	No
Include Date Header	Include an RFC-2616 Date header in the request.	True	True False	No	No
Follow Redirects	Follow HTTP redirects issued by remote server.	True	True False	No	No
Attributes to Send	Regular expression that defines which attributes to send as HTTP headers in the request. If not defined, no attributes are sent as headers.			No	No

Relationships:

Name	Description
Retry	FlowFile will be routed on any status code that can be retried (5xx status codes).
No Retry	FlowFile will be routed on any status code that should NOT be retried (1xx, 3xx, 4xx status codes).
Response	Response FlowFile will be routed upon success (2xx status codes).
Failure	FlowFile will be routed on any type of connection failure, timeout or general exception.
Original	Original FlowFile will be routed upon success (2xx status codes).