topic Re: endDate not working as expected with timeCycle using <duration>/<end> notation in Alfresco Archive

endDate not working as expected with timeCycle using / notation

stephsmith — Wed, 14 Jan 2015 14:52:18 GMT

The ISO 8601 standard mentions 4 ways to specify intervals, one of which is <duration>/<end>.From the spec, it appears that <end> identifies end of the interval.When testing this in Activiti, I expected this to identify the end of the interval in which the timer would fire.Once we

Re: endDate not working as expected with timeCycle using / notation

jbarrez — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 14:44:30 GMT

So, to implement the ISO8601 cycle parsing, we actually piggyback on a class in the JDK. The code in Activiti is here: https://github.com/Activiti/Activiti/blob/master/modules/activiti-engine/src/main/java/org/activiti/engine/impl/calendar/DurationHelper.java#L47

And it seems, from looking at the javadoc, it indeed doesn't support the /endDate. I don't think it can be easily added on. But maybe it would be a good canidate for another attribute, that works on cron expressions too (something like activiti:endDate=""). What do you think?

Re: endDate not working as expected with timeCycle using / notation

stephsmith — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 16:03:00 GMT

I think an attribute is fine. I am assuming this is on "timeCycle". Using an attribute allows us to specify a process variable which is what we we ultimately need for the end date.

Re: endDate not working as expected with timeCycle using / notation

lsmall — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 16:10:45 GMT

Something like:

<timeCycle activiti:endDate='2008-05-11T15:30:00Z'>R/PT15S</timeCycle>

Any way we could get you to support a reference to a process variable? 😉

<timeCycle activiti:endDate='${EndDate}'>R/PT15S</timeCycle>

where the value of the process variable EndDate = '2008-05-11T15:30:00Z'

Re: endDate not working as expected with timeCycle using / notation

trademak — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 13:27:31 GMT

If we implement such an end date then supporting a process variable on all events except for a start event would be fine. Did someone already create a JIRA issue for this?

Best regards,

Re: endDate not working as expected with timeCycle using / notation

stephsmith — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 13:52:12 GMT

We have not entered one but will do so today.

Re: endDate not working as expected with timeCycle using / notation

stephsmith — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 14:41:18 GMT

I created a JIRA issue to track this problem. THanks!
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/ACT-2184

Re: endDate not working as expected with timeCycle using / notation

trademak — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 08:02:06 GMT

Thanks

Re: endDate not working as expected with timeCycle using / notation

vasile_dirla — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 20:44:57 GMT

Implemented as it was discussed here.