topic Re: ProcessInstance only returned after task ended in Alfresco Archive

ProcessInstance only returned after task ended

kkdw — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 08:23:10 GMT

Hello,I am trying to use Activiti as a sort of "pimped up" state machine -> the Process only contains ServiceTasks which point towards Java Delegates. In order to monitor the state of a running process I would like to access the processInstance Object after it is started. However when starting my

Re: ProcessInstance only returned after task ended

jbarrez — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 19:46:10 GMT

No, when your service task is async, the method call returns before the service task is executed.

Note that the ProcessInstance object is a stale object, it wont be updated with the latest values, unless you refetch it.

Re: ProcessInstance only returned after task ended

kkdw — Wed, 03 Jun 2015 20:02:35 GMT

Hi!
Thanks a lot for your answer. I had indeed a bug in my code - now making the first service task asynchronous - will return the ProcessInstance object back.
Cheers,
Konrad