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Assign Task Local Variables in BPMN (JavaServiceTask)

jrussell_smyth — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:05:54 GMT

Is there a way to assign a task local variable for a Java ServiceTask from BPMN?My use case is developing small reusable ServiceTasks and we would like to not have to have them know about the larger process they are running in, rather we would like to take a process level var and assign it to a task

Re: Assign Task Local Variables in BPMN (JavaServiceTask)

jrussell_smyth — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:06:58 GMT

To add more to what we are looking to accomplish - we want to have a single task that can be used as a single pass, or as a multi-instance, and in either case pick up the input from the same place in the java code.

I know you can use fields and expressions to get values into your execution, but that wont work for the iterated collection in a multi-instance, so if you had a single delegate that you want to use both single-pass and multi-instance, I cant find a way to make it consistent on where it gets the input to operate upon.

Thanks again

Re: Assign Task Local Variables in BPMN (JavaServiceTask)

jorell — Sat, 24 Aug 2013 22:22:19 GMT

Did you figure this out? We're trying to do the same thing and keep the task local assignment in the bpmn so we can have a generic task delegate.

Re: Assign Task Local Variables in BPMN (JavaServiceTask)

jbarrez — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 09:47:46 GMT

DelegateTask has a method Object setVariableLocal(String variableName, Object value);