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For service task return values, is Serializable required?

matt1 — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 15:51:10 GMT

I'm new to Activiti so please bear with me.I was playing around with returning values from service tasks and then passing that value to the subsequent task, and I was only able to return a POJO and use it in the subsequent task if I implemented Serializable. (maybe I'm doing something wrong.)So this

Re: For service task return values, is Serializable required?

jbarrez — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 12:59:57 GMT

If you do it like that, the values will be serialized to the database as java pojos. So yes, in that case these classes must be Serializable.

Re: For service task return values, is Serializable required?

matt1 — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 15:06:48 GMT

>If you do it like that
Is there another way? What is the best practice?

Re: For service task return values, is Serializable required?

trademak — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 10:59:39 GMT

If you need the values in another task, you need to set multiple primitive values or you can serialize the full value as a Java object or change it JSON or XML.

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