topic Re: Get Process Documentation in Alfresco Archive

Get Process Documentation

krigu — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:06:23 GMT

Is it possible to get (via Java) the documentation of the process itself somehow? <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><definitions xmlns="http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/20100524/MODEL" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:activiti="http://activiti.org/bpmn" xmlns:bpmn

Re: Get Process Documentation

trademak — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:57:13 GMT

Hi,

No this is not available via the Activiti API.
But it shouldn't be too hard to make it available. Can you create a JIRA?

Best regards,

Re: Get Process Documentation

krigu — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:39:36 GMT

Done.

http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/ACT-1020

Re: Get Process Documentation

krigu — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 15:21:40 GMT

I found out this feature got implemented in Version 5.10. Thanks a lot.

However, I tried to get the documentation with the new method but I always recieve null.

This is my unittest:

 @Rule
 public ActivitiRule activitiRule = new ActivitiRule();

 @Test
 @Deployment(resources = { "diagrams/MyProcess.bpmn" })
 public void descriptionTest() {

  RuntimeService runtimeService = activitiRule.getRuntimeService();
  runtimeService.startProcessInstanceByKey("MyProcess");

  ProcessDefinition r =  activitiRule
    .getRepositoryService().createProcessDefinitionQuery().list()
    .get(0);
  
  assertNotNull(r.getDescription()); // Always fails
  
 }

The bpmn looks like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<definitions xmlns="http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/20100524/MODEL" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:activiti="http://activiti.org/bpmn" xmlns:bpmndi="http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/20100524/DI" xmlns:smileysurprised:mgdc="http://www.omg.org/spec/DD/20100524/DC" xmlns:smileysurprised:mgdi="http://www.omg.org/spec/DD/20100524/DI" typeLanguage="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" expressionLanguage="http://www.w3.org/1999/XPath" targetNamespace="http://www.ultrasoft.ch/">
  <process id="MyProcess" name="MyName">
    <documentation>My Documentation</documentation>
<!– and so on… –>

I get the correct name, namespace, etc, but the description is always null. Am I doing something wrong?

Re: Get Process Documentation

jbarrez — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 13:54:32 GMT

Could you attach your unit test + process to that jira issue and reopen it?

Re: Get Process Documentation

krigu — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:37:58 GMT

Could you attach your unit test + process to that jira issue and reopen it?

Done. I provided a small standalone testcase with maven. Hope it helps!

Thanks for your work!

Re: Get Process Documentation

jbarrez — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:43:55 GMT

Thanks. I'll look into it.

Re: Get Process Documentation

marcthomas2012 — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 10:01:13 GMT

I have just come across this exact same issue with getDescription() returning null.

Do you have any idea when this issue is planned to be fixed? My code is relying on it working and we ship at the end of the month.

Any assistance, temporary work arounds would be appreciated.

Thanks
Marc

Re: Get Process Documentation

jbarrez — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 08:07:59 GMT

I believe Bernd fixed it on master: see https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/ACT-1020

Re: Get Process Documentation

marcthomas2012 — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 09:07:29 GMT

Does anyone know when 5.11 will be made available?

Re: Get Process Documentation

jbarrez — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:31:31 GMT

One month from now, November 1st.