topic Re: Get name of currently processed activity in Alfresco Archive

Get name of currently processed activity

serid — Mon, 05 Sep 2016 11:02:10 GMT

Hi All,I am trying to achieve what seems to be an easy task - get currently activity name being processed.I have an UI which shows currently running process and a progress bar which shows the progress of a ServiceTask.If activity is something different - eg ScriptTask or a UserTask - it does not sho

Re: Get name of currently processed activity

warper — Mon, 05 Sep 2016 15:53:48 GMT

Is there a simple way to achieve it ?

Nope. Transactions, cancellations and multiple executions per process are ruining the whole idea.
You can send notifications to your UI-related in-memory (or DB) storage and persist current activity there. It's important that you send notifications, not use direct listeners, your store should be in different transaction context and/or out of transactions.
You should process events of activity/process cancellation, transitions to wait-states etc.

I see similar reporting in unit tests, sometimes activity sequence is wrong

Re: Get name of currently processed activity

serid — Mon, 05 Sep 2016 16:21:54 GMT

Hi,

Many thanks for your response !
Yes - I have already modified my service class so I am buffering the name of currently running activity.
Wanted to avoid that on the service layer (don't like to have a state of any service) but cannot find any better way.

Thanks,
Adrian