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BPMN Activity 'documentation' element

mlawler — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 02:13:49 GMT

If I have a <userTask> element in my BPMN20.xml process definition, I can add a <documentation> element inside it. Great.But I cant see how I can do that with other elements such as manualTask.Why cant a manualTask have some documentation? My app's usage of Activiti would like it :-)It l

Re: BPMN Activity 'documentation' element

jbarrez — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 08:46:28 GMT

You are correct, only for user tasks the documentation is parsed. But it should however be parsed for every supported BPMN construct that allows it.

So option C is the best way to go here. I added http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/ACT-224 to implement it.

Re: BPMN Activity 'documentation' element

mlawler — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 08:54:19 GMT

Is this something you'd accept a patch for, or is it something that a Core developer would implement.

Happy to have a crack at it and submit for review.

Re: BPMN Activity 'documentation' element

jbarrez — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 12:16:15 GMT

This is certainly something I'd welcome a patch for 🙂

The easiest path forward is to create a Jira, assign it to me and attach the patch to it.

Re: BPMN Activity 'documentation' element

iravanchi — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 08:06:42 GMT

I've changed the whole parser design in my own code, see here:
http://forums.activiti.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=305

And I'm waiting for Tom to permit me to contribute.
I guess I should make the patch in my new parser too, so either let me know (through this topic) the JIRA issue that has the patch, or wait to patch the new code. Joram's help on what we should do is welcome!

And, out of curiosity, what is your unit test policy in the project? Are you doing TDD?
I mean, should we write unit tests for such changes?