topic Re: submitTaskFormData issue with Boolean Types in Alfresco Archive

submitTaskFormData issue with Boolean Types

scolyer — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:24:33 GMT

I'm working on making a separate front end for activiti using Struts2 with the java api. I seem to be running into an issue when submitting forms.Basically the flow is to render and display a form and then transform the parameters into an appropriate map and use submitTaskFormData or submitStartForm

Re: submitTaskFormData issue with Boolean Types

frederikherema1 — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 09:27:59 GMT

You're mixing up the form-properties with the built-in form rendering. Form-properties have built-in type conversion to Strings

@see http://activiti.org/userguide/index.html#forms

Re: submitTaskFormData issue with Boolean Types

scolyer — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 20:15:41 GMT

Unless I misunderstood what you were just saying, I think I must have mis-conveyed my original thought:

Using 5.4, when I use submitTaskFormData and the value I'm submitting is a string of true, boolean's are not properly receiving this as a true boolean. I assume that these are supposed to be casted from Strings to Booleans because the only that I can submit is Strings. However, this cast does not seem to be taking place. Any thoughts?

Thanks.

Re: submitTaskFormData issue with Boolean Types

frederikherema1 — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 13:01:25 GMT

Hi,

Default types of formProperties that are built in: Date, Enum, Long and String. So when you want to have "true" (as form-property value) converted to a Boolean variable, you'll have to add your own custom form-property type. Just search the forum for "customFormTypes" on how to do this.

Re: submitTaskFormData issue with Boolean Types

frederikherema1 — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 13:38:34 GMT

Never mind that Jira issue, I'm fixing this on trunk right now