Compression support on NiFi api requests

[rsaggino]

• Nipyapi version: 0.14
• NiFi version: 1.11.4
• Python version: 3.8
• Operating System: RHEL7

Description

The generated swagger client for NiFi makes uncompressed requests, this is unbearable on larger clusters.

What I Did

As a workaround I manually added support for gzip in the api_client.py and tested the solution.
Listing the controllers previously required 5 minutes, after the patch just 20 seconds.

If there is no long term solution on the swagger/openapi side, should we consider manually patching it?

Thanks,
Raffaele