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Timer boundary event and execution listeners

darionis — Mon, 01 Dec 2014 17:52:18 GMT

If I have a task with 'timer boundary event' and it times out, will it notify its listners? For example: <boundaryEvent id="workOrderTimer" name="RZ Timer" attachedToRef="workOrder" cancelActivity="true"> <extensionElements> <activiti:executionListener event="end" class

Re: Timer boundary event and execution listeners

jbarrez — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 15:07:48 GMT

Have you tried putting it on the sequenceflow?

Re: Timer boundary event and execution listeners

darionis — Mon, 08 Dec 2014 12:20:05 GMT

It does work on the sequence flow, but not for boundary event. Is it a feature or a bug?

I've been through the source, it looks like BoundaryEvents are treated the same as SequenceFlows, in the public void processFlowElements(Collection<FlowElement> flowElements) but BoundaryEventParseHandler is much simpler than SequenceFlowParseHandler and does not call createExecutionListenersOnTransition(…).

Now, I know the answer to my initial question, but I would appreciate if you quickly comment on this - should BoundaryEvent be parsed like SequenceFlow?

Thanks!

Re: Timer boundary event and execution listeners

jbarrez — Mon, 08 Dec 2014 13:51:15 GMT

No, it shouldn't, those are two quite different things.

The thing is that executionlistener is not officially supported: http://activiti.org/userguide/index.html#executionListeners
It only works on activities and a couple of dedicated events. But not the boundary event.

Re: Timer boundary event and execution listeners

darionis — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 10:12:34 GMT

OK, understood.

Thank you!