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How to cascade delete process instance using REST API?

ssun — Fri, 27 Jun 2014 21:31:49 GMT

The question was asked here http://forums.activiti.org/content/how-cascade-delete-process-instance-rest-apiBut no real answer.For my case, what I have is:A parent workflow has a call activity task.The call activity task calls a child workflow.After the child workflow is called, I can see 2 process i

Re: How to cascade delete process instance using REST API?

martin_grofcik — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 06:23:45 GMT

Hi,

I would say there are 2 possibilities:
1. Combine several rest requests to get list of parent <-> child process instances and delete all of them afterwards (there will be several transactions)
2. Implement your own rest service to cascade delete processes. (you can create pull request afterwards.

Regards
Martin

Re: How to cascade delete process instance using REST API?

ssun — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 21:09:30 GMT

Thank you Martin
Is there anything I can do at the BPMN level such us terminate the parent process whenever the child process ends/deleted.
And how activiti end the parent process end when child process end? How was that implemented? Event/Message listener?

–Gordon

Re: How to cascade delete process instance using REST API?

martin_grofcik — Wed, 02 Jul 2014 05:59:11 GMT

Hi Gordon,

whenever the child process ends.
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And how activiti end the parent process end when child process end?

When Child process ends - parent process can continue in the execution. (when there is end event - parent process ends too).
In the case of child process delete, child is deleted, parent is kept in the waiting state.

Regards
Martin

Re: How to cascade delete process instance using REST API?

ssun — Wed, 02 Jul 2014 19:19:57 GMT

Thank you Martin. And what I found out for the REST API is that if I delete the root parent process, all child process, grandchild process are all deleted.