topic serviceTask field types in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/servicetask-field-types/m-p/18686#M8556 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I am looking for a possibility to implement a serviceTask which should be able to create objects with arbitrary properties. I would like to have these properties injected as Map into my serviceTask expression.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>For example I want to define this in my process definition like:</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>&lt;serviceTask id="javaService" name="Java service invocation" activiti:class="org.activiti.examples.bpmn.servicetask.CreateObject"&gt;<BR />&nbsp; &lt;activiti:field name="objectType" stringValue="dummy"/&gt;<BR />&nbsp; &lt;activiti:field name="properties"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;activiti:map&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;activiti:entry key="key0"&gt;&lt;activiti:string&gt;Hello World&lt;/activiti:string&gt;&lt;/activiti:entry&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;activiti:entry key="key1"&gt;&lt;activiti:expression&gt;Hello ${gender == 'male' ? 'Mr.' : 'Mrs.'} ${name}&lt;/activiti:expression&gt;&lt;/activiti:entry&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/activiti:map&gt;<BR />&nbsp; &lt;/activiti:field&gt;<BR />&lt;/serviceTask&gt;<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>My service task implementation would be like this:</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />public class CreateObject implements JavaDelegate {<BR />&nbsp; …<BR />&nbsp; private Expression objectType;<BR />&nbsp; private Expression properties;<BR /><BR />&nbsp; public void execute(DelegateExecution execution) {<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; String type = (String) objectType.getValue(execution);<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Map props = (Map)properties.getValue(execution);<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; myRepository.addNode(type, props);<BR />&nbsp; }<BR />}<BR />…<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>As far as I know, currently only </SPAN><STRONG>activiti:string</STRONG><SPAN> and </SPAN><STRONG>activiti:expression</STRONG><SPAN> are supported. Are there any plans for supporting such a serviceTask field type. </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Or should I use a different implementation strategy?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:04:09 GMT h_ter_schuur 2011-02-28T13:04:09Z serviceTask field types https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/servicetask-field-types/m-p/18686#M8556 I am looking for a possibility to implement a serviceTask which should be able to create objects with arbitrary properties. I would like to have these properties injected as Map into my serviceTask expression.For example I want to define this in my process definition like:&lt;serviceTask id="javaSer Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:04:09 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/servicetask-field-types/m-p/18686#M8556 h_ter_schuur 2011-02-28T13:04:09Z Re: serviceTask field types https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/servicetask-field-types/m-p/18687#M8557 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>No, that's not possible at this moment.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>You could create the map in a script task or execution listener up front and then inject that variable with an expression.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 01 Mar 2011 08:38:30 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/servicetask-field-types/m-p/18687#M8557 jbarrez 2011-03-01T08:38:30Z