topic Reading a variable set in the DelegateExecution in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/reading-a-variable-set-in-the-delegateexecution/m-p/14680#M6354 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi all,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I'm just beginning learning Activiti and I'd need a bit of help with Execution variables.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I'm setting some variables in a serviceTask</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>public void execute(DelegateExecution arg0) throws Exception {<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; . . . . <BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; arg0.setVariable("user", rs.getString(1));<BR />}<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>however I'd need to read this variable from an EJB, so I tried:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>ExecutionQuery execution = runtimeService.createExecutionQuery().processInstanceId(procId);<BR />List &lt;Execution&gt; list = execution.list();<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>However the single Execution instances do not contain any getVariable method.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>What's the correct way to retrieve the variable value ?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Thanks</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Mark</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 13 Jan 2011 16:37:24 GMT mark1970 2011-01-13T16:37:24Z Reading a variable set in the DelegateExecution https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/reading-a-variable-set-in-the-delegateexecution/m-p/14680#M6354 Hi all,I'm just beginning learning Activiti and I'd need a bit of help with Execution variables.I'm setting some variables in a serviceTaskpublic void execute(DelegateExecution arg0) throws Exception {&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; . . . . &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; arg0.setVariable("user", rs.getString(1));}‍‍‍‍howeve Thu, 13 Jan 2011 16:37:24 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/reading-a-variable-set-in-the-delegateexecution/m-p/14680#M6354 mark1970 2011-01-13T16:37:24Z Re: Reading a variable set in the DelegateExecution https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/reading-a-variable-set-in-the-delegateexecution/m-p/14681#M6355 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>You should use the runtimeService for this and fetch the variables for the execution you want:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><CODE><BR />runtimeService.getVariables(execution.getId());<BR />runtimeService.getVariable(execution.getId()"varName")<BR /></CODE></BODY></HTML> Fri, 14 Jan 2011 06:22:48 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/reading-a-variable-set-in-the-delegateexecution/m-p/14681#M6355 frederikherema1 2011-01-14T06:22:48Z Re: Reading a variable set in the DelegateExecution https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/reading-a-variable-set-in-the-delegateexecution/m-p/14682#M6356 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>thanks a lot! </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Mark</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 14 Jan 2011 08:34:43 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/reading-a-variable-set-in-the-delegateexecution/m-p/14682#M6356 mark1970 2011-01-14T08:34:43Z