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getBusinessKey() on DelegateExecution returns null

mesterlis — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 01:18:21 GMT

Since Activiti 5.6, it's possible to retrieve business key from DelegateExecution in JavaDelegate task, which is great! It works in most cases. However, I came across a case where delegateExecution.getBusinessKey() returns null. I have the following definition:<parallelGateway id="fork" /><

Re: getBusinessKey() on DelegateExecution returns null

frederikherema1 — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 06:54:35 GMT

I see what the problem is… We have 2 DelegateExecution implementing classes. The ExecutionEntity returns it's own business-key member field, while the ExecutionImpl returns the businesskey retrieved from the processInstance.

I'll reopen the issue http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/ACT-730 and fix it in 5.7 release. Since the getBusinessKey() is used in persistence, having the ExecutionEntity return the process-instance's businesskey on getBusinessKey() is not an option, it will probabily be called getProcessBusinessKey().

Re: getBusinessKey() on DelegateExecution returns null

mesterlis — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 18:54:59 GMT

Thanks for the quick reply and for the fix in 5.7!

In the meantime to work around the issue, I am going to cheat by casting delegateExecution to ExecutionEntity:
((ExecutionEntity)delegateExecution).getProcessInstance().getBusinessKey();

Re: getBusinessKey() on DelegateExecution returns null

yerbol777 — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 03:43:35 GMT

Hi,
I am trying to get ProcessBusinesskey on startEvent of Process by ExecutionListener, but it is returning null.
None of them works:
execution.getProcessBusinessKey()
execution.getBusinessKey()

Pls, can you suggest method to do it?