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ActivityName is null when calling signal method

jbinder — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:09:19 GMT

Hi,I implemented a custom JavaServiceTask extending TaskActivityBehavior.I override the execute and signal method.Everything works fine in the execute method execution.getCurrentActivityName() returns the ActivitiName.But if I call runtimeService.signal(executionId) - inside the signal method the ex

Re: ActivityName is null when calling signal method

frederikherema1 — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:54:18 GMT

I think you have discovered an issue with the consistency of "getCurrentActivityName" and the actual activity that is active when signaling. As a workaround, you can use the ActivityExecution->getActivity().getProperty(name) to get the name…

Can you create a JIRA-issue for this, "fix version" set to 5.13? Thanks!

Re: ActivityName is null when calling signal method

jbinder — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:23:50 GMT

Hi frederikheremans,

sorry for my late respone but I was off last week.
I do not have a JIRA account to create a bug issue for that point.

Thanks for your workaround, but the problem is that ActivityExecution->getActivity() delivers NULL in that case.

Re: ActivityName is null when calling signal method

ronald_van_kuij — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:14:42 GMT

I do not have a JIRA account to create a bug issue for that point.

It is easy to create…