topic Re: FormService.SubmitFormData should accept null in Alfresco Archive

FormService.SubmitFormData should accept null

pereira_melvin — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 18:26:17 GMT

It would be good if FormService.SubmitFormData and SubmitTaskData can accept null as a parameter to the Map<String, String>.Reason: If I have a cdi scoped bean filled up from a jsf form. I just need a trigger to put the waiting task to move forward.under these circumstances one has to really

Re: FormService.SubmitFormData should accept null

ronald_van_kuij — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 19:49:12 GMT

I agree it could be a convenience, but are you seriously concerned about this map using memory?

Re: FormService.SubmitFormData should accept null

frederikherema1 — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 06:29:44 GMT

Seriously?

Use Collections.EMPTY_MAP -> this is already consuming memory… Or create your own map-implementing singleton that consumes even LESS memory

Re: FormService.SubmitFormData should accept null

pereira_melvin — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 19:26:27 GMT

But it does not harm checking for an existence of a null value , since many a time we may not be interested in sending those
string data types in the Map, when we already have facilities from activiti like spring beans and cdi beans.