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ProcessInstance.isEnded() not becoming true when UserTask is in flow

jlilley — Mon, 22 Aug 2016 14:52:09 GMT

I am testing integration of the Activiti engine in a fairly direct fashion (no Tomcat or other container, no spring). So far, so good! I am able to build a custom ServiceTask that calls my JavaDelegate execute() method, access and set variables, and so on. I am also able to call complete() on a U

Re: ProcessInstance.isEnded() not becoming true when UserTask is in flow

jlilley — Mon, 22 Aug 2016 16:01:36 GMT

Hmmm, when I add this trace line:
System.out.println("process count=" + runtimeService.createProcessInstanceQuery().count());
It prints 0, so I assume that the process instance actually ended, but for some reason the isEnded() status didn't get set in the in-memory ProcessInstance for some reason? I guess that's not a problem, just not what I was expecting.

Re: ProcessInstance.isEnded() not becoming true when UserTask is in flow

martin_grofcik — Tue, 23 Aug 2016 09:11:49 GMT

Hi John,

Did you update process instance?

Regards
Martin

Re: ProcessInstance.isEnded() not becoming true when UserTask is in flow

jlilley — Tue, 23 Aug 2016 13:20:43 GMT

I don't know what that means. ProcessInstance doesn't seem to have an update() or refresh() method…
I tried this:
ProcessInstance processInstance2 = runtimeService.createProcessInstanceQuery().processInstanceBusinessKey(processInstance.getBusinessKey()).list().get(0);
But I get an NPE. I tried this:
ProcessInstance processInstance2 = runtimeService.createProcessInstanceQuery().processInstanceId(processInstance.getProcessInstanceId()).list().get(0);
but I get an empty list.
It seems that once the process instance is finished, its record goes away too, and there is nothing to refresh. Which kind of makes sense…
Thanks,
john

Re: ProcessInstance.isEnded() not becoming true when UserTask is in flow

warper — Tue, 23 Aug 2016 15:53:43 GMT

Indeed, if process ends, it's not in runtimeService anymore, you can find it in historyService if you want, but that's another story.