topic Re: Where did ClockUtil go in 5.15.1? in Alfresco Archive

Where did ClockUtil go in 5.15.1?

njames — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 16:51:15 GMT

Hi,We were using ClockUtil.getCurrentTime() to get the current time from the Activiti process engines. This seemed like a good idea at the time, in case any unit tests set a new current time on the engine. I have changed my code to use new Date() instead, so it's not a showstopper, but clearly there

Re: Where did ClockUtil go in 5.15.1?

martin_grofcik — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 06:18:41 GMT

Hi Nick,

ClockUtil was replaced by Clock and ClockReader interfaces. Their implementation is DefaultClockImpl. You can get/set clock for process engine with org.activiti.engine.ProcessEngineConfiguration#getClock (setClock) methods.

Regards
Martin

Re: Where did ClockUtil go in 5.15.1?

njames — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 21:44:16 GMT

Hi Martin,
Thanks for the info. Does the following look right to you?
<java>
    @Autowired
    private transient ProcessEngine processEngine;
public Date getCurrentDate() {
        final ProcessEngineConfigurationImpl processEngineConfiguration = ((ProcessEngineImpl) processEngine).getProcessEngineConfiguration();
        return processEngineConfiguration.getClock().getCurrentTime();
}
</java>
Is there a better alternative than the cast to ProcessEngineImpl?
Thanks,

Nick.

Re: Where did ClockUtil go in 5.15.1?

martin_grofcik — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 05:55:04 GMT

Hi Nick,

May be you can autowire ProcessEngineImpl.
ProcessEngineConfiguration should be enough.

Regards
Martin