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Problem with the ProcessDefinition class

rittmann — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 15:14:23 GMT

While I was playing a little with the different engines in Activiti 5.13, I found a weird issue. I use spring to get the repository service. In my function, I have this coderocessDefinition processDefinition;try { processDefinition = repositoryService.getProcessDefinition(id);} catch (Exception

Re: Problem with the ProcessDefinition class

rittmann — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 08:21:07 GMT

Investigating this issue, I created a workaround. It is not ideal, but at least gets the job done. Instead of performing a query through the repository service, I perform it using a query in the runtime service. Of course, this is far from ideal, since in a production environment it means to search the whole process definitions database - but then again, it will probably not be so huge as to cause a significant performance impact.

So in the try clause, I would write this line instead of the one above:

processDefinition = repositoryService.createProcessDefinitionQuery().processDefinitionId(id).list().get(0);

Re: Problem with the ProcessDefinition class

trademak — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 09:45:11 GMT

If you want to do something with the reporting process definitions, you have to make sure that the processDefinition form type is on the classpath. This form type is implemented in the Activiti Explorer. These reporting process definitions are there only as an example, so if they are causing issues, just delete/ignore them.

Best regards,

Re: Problem with the ProcessDefinition class

rittmann — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 12:11:26 GMT

Ok, I will give it a look later this week. Thanks for the orientation.