NIFI-4575 Added ability to convert from a date to a timestamp within …

[MikeThomsen]

…the record API.

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[MikeThomsen]

@mattyb149 do you think you could take a look at this? It's only a 3 line change to one of the conversion APIs in the Record API package. The scenario where it came up was Mongo's client API returns a java.util.Date object for dates and to convert a Mongo date to a Record API timestamp field, I had to enable a conversion of java.util.Date to a java.sql.Timestamp. Without this change, you cannot load a Mongo date and assign it to a timestamp field in a record (so it breaks the Mongo LookupService if it's missing.)

[MikeThomsen]

@m-hogue Since you have done a lot with the record api, could take you a look at this? It's only a few lines.

[mattyb149]

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[mattyb149]

+1 LGTM, ran a full build with contrib-check, tested with a MongoDBLookupService, verified that the error occurs when retrieving a Date field, but is successfully converted with this fix. Thanks for the improvement! Merging to master