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Activiti Designer - Not generating xml file?

mxc4 — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 22:02:40 GMT

Hi all,I am trying to use the Activiti designer but seem to face some basic challenges. If I create a basic diagramme, using the new menu item, save it, generate a unit test case and then compile, the build claims it is successful, yet not test are run and the code in the eclipse IDE continues to sh

Re: Activiti Designer - Not generating xml file?

frederikherema1 — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 06:33:46 GMT

Does your eclipse have the m2eclipse plugin? Otherwise, do a mvn "eclipse:eclipse" on the project in command line and refresh…

Re: Activiti Designer - Not generating xml file?

tiesebarrell — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 11:49:34 GMT

This actually sounds like a bug. We don't generate those files anymore since we switched to a single .bpmn file. Maybe the generation of the unit test hasn't been adjusted to reflect that change - we should fix that. Please file a Jira issue so we can look into it.

Re: Activiti Designer - Not generating xml file?

tiesebarrell — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 14:19:31 GMT

Let me take that back. We generate a correct unit test for the .bpmn file, so there's no problem there. Try Frederik's suggestion too - you need to make sure the dependencies are on the classpath using maven.

Re: Activiti Designer - Not generating xml file?

mxc4 — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 14:29:38 GMT

Hi all,

Thanks for the suggestions. I got it working by generating the maven project on the cli and then adding what I needed. Not sure what I did wrong before. I am more of a NetBeans and cli user so could just be I don't know the Eclipse IDE.

I also worked out the bpmn diagramme file combines the process definition and the visual representation. It was confusing to see the generated unit test referring to a xml with the bpmn20.xml extension as if the file should exists all on it own; but I see that this a name passed to the RepositoryService which also takes a reference to the bpmn file. I assume the RepositoryService generates this file from the bpmn diagram file.

The tests are running now - on to my next challenge which I am going to post about next