topic Re: TaskListener for deleted tasks in Alfresco Archive

TaskListener for deleted tasks

brianshowers — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 23:16:20 GMT

I'm trying to write a TaskListener that will watch for all task events (create, assign, and complete). However, it appears that if a task is cancelled (because the parent process is cancelled), no events are sent to the TaskListener. As a result, from my listener's perspective, it looks like there

Re: TaskListener for deleted tasks

frederikherema1 — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 08:05:54 GMT

There is no particular reason why we don't have an event "deleted". Task-listeners have been in activiti for a long time and we envisioned the common use cases of creating, assigning and completing and didn't take into account the deletion of a task before it is completed (eg. multi-instance completionCondition reached, process deleted, …).

This is a valid improvement. Can you perhaps create a JIRA-issue (improvement) for this?

Re: TaskListener for deleted tasks

brianshowers — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:48:06 GMT

Thanks for the quick confirmation. I've created ACT-1560 for this request. I also created ACT-1561 for a related, but lower priority request to be able to register a listener for all event types without configuring it N times.