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Process instance variable to drive Service Task

rdewall — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:45:35 GMT

Generally these are questions to help me understand process instance variables and their usage within a service task.If I understand correctly, the service task instance is essentially a singleton and is shared among all process instances. When the service class task is instantiated, its field inje

Re: Process instance variable to drive Service Task

mproch — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:54:34 GMT

Hi,
when you implement ServiceTask by implementing JavaDelegate, you have access to process instance variables by DelegateExecution object:


public void execute(DelegateExecution execution) throws Exception {
    String var = (String) execution.getVariable("input");
    var = var.toUpperCase();
    execution.setVariable("input", var);
  }

- it's in user guide…

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Re: Process instance variable to drive Service Task

rdewall — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:53:31 GMT

I think so yes. I was confusing field injection with with process instance variables. Thanks.