GetHdfs to PutEmail Flow Apache NiFi

Question

I am curious if I will need any extra processors for a GETHDFS - > COUNT PUTEMAIL flow using Apache Nifi. I will be reading a CSV file from a HDFS location and I want to email the contents of the the directory using the PUTEMAIL.

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Answer 1

If you want to put the contents of the FlowFile as the email message body, then you need to extract the contents to an attribute which can be done using the ExtractText processor.

Otherwise, you don't need any other processor. You can just use the FlowFile as an attached file and you're done.