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activiti:dueDate data type / expression language issue

thilo_ginkel — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 09:16:09 GMT

Hi there,I am trying to set a due date for a user task in a BPMN XML file by means of the activiti:dueDate attribute.Unfortunately, I was not yet successful to attach the correct data type to this attribute. Entering a plain ISO date ends up as a java.lang.String. Is there a way in JUEL to convert a

Re: activiti:dueDate data type / expression language issue

jbarrez — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 13:13:08 GMT

Can you post the snippet of process xml you are using?

Re: activiti:dueDate data type / expression language issue

thilo_ginkel — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 10:56:33 GMT

Can you post the snippet of process xml you are using?

Sure:

<userTask id="taskA1" name="Test Task" activiti:assignee="testUser1" activiti:dueDate="${???('1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00')}">
    <documentation>Task A1</documentation>
</userTask>

What I am not sure about is whether there is any stock functionality to instantiate a java.util.Date within the dueDate expression (thus the question marks in the expression, which is of course not valid this way).

Thanks,
Thilo

P.S.: Sorry for the late reply.

Re: activiti:dueDate data type / expression language issue

jbarrez — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 07:15:22 GMT

I Haven't tried it, but a java SimpleDateFormat might be used for that purpose.