topic Programmatic firing of timer event in Alfresco Archive

Programmatic firing of timer event

krraghavan — Wed, 24 Jun 2015 01:24:48 GMT

We have a workflow that almost exclusively uses ServiceTasks. We want to be able to fire timer events from some of the subprocesses and catch them as boundary timer events and transition to different parts of the workflow.As I understand, Activiti does not support timer events for ServiceTask and t

Re: Programmatic firing of timer event

martin_grofcik — Wed, 24 Jun 2015 06:23:15 GMT

Hi Raghavan,

To fire timer events you have to work with virtual time (it is wildly used in simulations). I do not think it is your case.
In real world you are not able to change time and fire timer events (time is just going).

Activiti does not support timer events

I do not agree timer events are supported.

Advice: Use messages or signals events instead of timer events.
Regards
Martin

Re: Programmatic firing of timer event

krraghavan — Wed, 24 Jun 2015 06:27:40 GMT

Thanks Martin. if you have any pointers as to how to do this using the API and where I could look, I would really appreciate it.
Thx much
Raghavan

Re: Programmatic firing of timer event

martin_grofcik — Wed, 24 Jun 2015 06:37:47 GMT

Hi,

org/activiti/engine/test/bpmn/event/message/*Test
org/activiti/engine/test/bpmn/event/signal/*Test
in activiti source

Regards
Martin