topic Terminate End Event in Call Activity in Alfresco Archive

Terminate End Event in Call Activity

foranc — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 15:47:26 GMT

Hi! We are attempting to terminate the entire process from within a Call Activity using Activiti 5.17. It appears that Terminate End Events within Call Activities are not yet supported, as rather than the parent process ending, it simply continues as usual (acting like there was a normal End Event w

Re: Terminate End Event in Call Activity

jbarrez — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 08:17:43 GMT

The TerminateEndEventTest.testTerminateInCallActivity runs green on 5.18.
Or do you mean you have done changes to that process to make it fail?

Re: Terminate End Event in Call Activity

foranc — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 12:48:52 GMT

Looking at TerminateEndEventTest.testTerminateInCallActivity, it appears that it is demonstrating that Terminate End Events terminate the Call Activity and continue the parent. Our understanding was that Terminate End Events should terminate the entire process, including the parent. If this is not the case, is there another type of event or task we can use to do the above? Thanks!

Re: Terminate End Event in Call Activity

jbarrez — Wed, 07 Oct 2015 08:29:53 GMT

It's been a while since I've looked at the terminate event, but if that's the test then i assume it's according to the spec. One option could be to set a variable in the called process and use that variable to route to another terminate end event?

Re: Terminate End Event in Call Activity

foranc — Wed, 07 Oct 2015 12:57:50 GMT

Alright. It was our understanding from the second post (the first by martin.grofcik) here:
https://forums.activiti.org/content/runtimeservicedeleteprocessinstance-causing-activitioptimisticlockingexceptions
that this was a bug and that parents should be terminated by a terminate end event in a child Call Activity, but I may have misread the post.

Any updates on the deleteProcessInstance bug mentioned in my first post?

Thanks for the suggestion! We're trying to avoid adding additional end events to parent processes, but will certainly consider it.

Re: Terminate End Event in Call Activity

jbarrez — Thu, 08 Oct 2015 09:14:05 GMT

"that this was a bug and that parents should be terminated by a terminate end event in a child Call Activity, but I may have misread the post."

My take is always that the unit tests reflect the truth. At least, the current truth.

"Any updates on the deleteProcessInstance bug mentioned in my first post?"

Calling that service API from within a service task probably will not work indeed. It probably needs quite a bit of work to make that happen.

Re: Terminate End Event in Call Activity

foranc — Thu, 08 Oct 2015 12:41:26 GMT

Alright, thank you for your help!

Re: Terminate End Event in Call Activity

jbarrez — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 10:30:58 GMT

@foranc: fyi: we'll look at it in more detail soon. We've got other users saying the opposite thing (the whole parent _is_ killed when using terminate end event with call activities). We'll dig into it and see what's up.