topic Re: Dynamic fork in Alfresco Archive

Dynamic fork

mreiterer — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 13:44:12 GMT

Hi all,i have the following requirements (see my process in the attachment): - The "Render" step calls an external resource via REST.- The external system delivers x (unknown number) request which contain a file reference which should then be handled/stored in parallel. -> My solution is to cal

Re: Dynamic fork

mreiterer — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 13:46:18 GMT

how do i add a png attachment ?

Re: Dynamic fork

mreiterer — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 13:54:08 GMT

http://postimg.org/image/70mdfarbb

Re: Dynamic fork

jbarrez — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 18:53:10 GMT

So basically you have multiple threads hitting the same receive task at the same time, right?
One option would be to use a multi instance receive task, potentially using an embedded subprocess with multi instance so you can correlate the execution id when you're request is sent back to Activiti.

Re: Dynamic fork

mreiterer — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 19:29:34 GMT

Yes. Don't i have to know the exact number of incoming messages / threads for multi-instance ?

Re: Dynamic fork

jbarrez — Thu, 07 May 2015 09:51:25 GMT

So how do you know in that case when to stop?

Re: Dynamic fork

mreiterer — Fri, 08 May 2015 15:02:04 GMT

I get a "completed" message at the end. I already have a solution now. I have implemented a loop consisting of a message gateway and a parallel gateway.