To enable all extensions for your platform, you may use -DENABLE_ALL=TRUE OR select the option to “Enable all Extensions” in the bootstrap script. ReadMe
Extensions consist of modules that are conditionally built into your client. Reasons why you may wish to do this with your modules/processors
We‘ve used HTTP-CURL as the first example. We’ve taken all libcURL runtime classes and placed them into an extensions folder
This folder contains a CMakeLists file so that we can conditionally build it. In the case with libcURL, if the user does not have curl installed OR they specify -DDISABLE_CURL=true in the cmake build, the extensions will not be built. In this case, when the extension is not built, C2 REST protocols, InvokeHTTP, and an HTTP Client implementation will not be included.
Your CMAKE file should build a static library, that will be included into the run time. This must be added with your conditional to the libminifi CMAKE, along with a platform specific whole archive inclusion. Note that this will ensure that despite no direct linkage being found by the compiler, we will include the code so that we can dynamically find your code.
There is a new function that can be used in the root cmake to build and included your extension. An example is based on the LibArchive extension. The createExtension function has 8 possible arguments. The first five arguments are required. The first argument specifies the variable controlling the exclusion of this extension, followed by the variable that is used when including it into conditional statements. The third argument is the pretty name followed by the description of the extension and the extension directory. The first optional argument is the test directory, which must also contain a CMakeLists.txt file. The seventh argument can be a conditional variable that tells us whether or not to add a third party subdirectory specified by the final extension.
In the lib archive example, we provide all arguments, but your extension may only need the first five and the the test folder. The seventh and eighth arguments must be included in tandem.
if ( NOT LibArchive_FOUND OR BUILD_LIBARCHIVE ) set(BUILD_TP "TRUE") endif() createExtension(DISABLE_LIBARCHIVE ARCHIVE-EXTENSIONS "ARCHIVE EXTENSIONS" "This Enables libarchive functionality including MergeContent, CompressContent, and (Un)FocusArchiveEntry" "extensions/libarchive" "${TEST_DIR}/archive-tests" BUILD_TP "thirdparty/libarchive-3.3.2")
It is advised that you also add your extension to bootstrap.sh as that is the suggested method of configuring MiNiFi C++
To find your classes, you must adhere to a dlsym call back that adheres to the core::ObjectFactory class, like the one below. This object factory will return a list of classes, that we can instantiate through the class loader mechanism. Note that since we are including your code directly into our runtime, we will take care of dlopen and dlsym calls. A map from the class name to the object factory is kept in memory.
class __attribute__((visibility("default"))) HttpCurlObjectFactory : public core::ObjectFactory { public: HttpCurlObjectFactory() { } /** * Gets the name of the object. * @return class name of processor */ virtual std::string getName() { return "HttpCurlObjectFactory"; } virtual std::string getClassName() { return "HttpCurlObjectFactory"; } /** * Gets the class name for the object * @return class name for the processor. */ virtual std::vector<std::string> getClassNames() { std::vector<std::string> class_names; class_names.push_back("RESTProtocol"); class_names.push_back("RESTReceiver"); class_names.push_back("RESTSender"); class_names.push_back("InvokeHTTP"); class_names.push_back("HTTPClient"); return class_names; } virtual std::unique_ptr<ObjectFactory> assign(const std::string &class_name) { if (class_name == "RESTReceiver") { return std::unique_ptr<ObjectFactory>(new core::DefautObjectFactory<minifi::c2::RESTReceiver>()); } else if (class_name == "RESTSender") { return std::unique_ptr<ObjectFactory>(new core::DefautObjectFactory<minifi::c2::RESTSender>()); } else if (class_name == "InvokeHTTP") { return std::unique_ptr<ObjectFactory>(new core::DefautObjectFactory<processors::InvokeHTTP>()); } else if (class_name == "HTTPClient") { return std::unique_ptr<ObjectFactory>(new core::DefautObjectFactory<utils::HTTPClient>()); } else { return nullptr; } } }; extern "C" { void *createHttpCurlFactory(void); }
To use your C function, you must define the sequence “Class Loader Functions” in your YAML file under FlowController. This will indicate to the code that the factory function is to be called and we will create the mappings defined, above.
Note that for the case of HTTP-CURL we have made it so that if libcURL exists and it is not disabled, the createHttpCurlFactory function is automatically loaded. To do this use the function FlowConfiguration::add_static_func -- this will add your function to the list of registered resources and will do so in a thread safe way. If you take this approach you cannot disable your library with an argument within the YAML file.
Extensions should minimize dependencies that are dynamically linked. This means that you should statically link to dependencies when possible. You should verify that your resulting binary doesn't have system dependencies via ldd (in Linux) or dumpbbin /dependents on Microsoft Windows.
It is advised that you place your extension in bootstrap.sh to allow users a visual menu for enabling or disabling your extension. It should not be enabled by default unless discussed with the community at large. If there is reliance on specialized hardware you should perform as many compile time tests as possible to ensure your extension cannot be enabled.