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question about rest service

whdwsl — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 09:54:44 GMT

hi , i have a question about the rest service : Get Process Instance Details, Request: GET /process-instance/{processInstanceId}through this api, i can get one processinstance detail, but when i watch the tasks in this process instance, i found the assignee is null, but in db, there is a value and n

Re: question about rest service

frederikherema1 — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 11:22:13 GMT

That seems like an issue, and should use if(assignee != null) instead. Has been fixed in november (presume 5.11, certainly 5.12):


if (historicTaskInstance.getAssignee() != null) {
          taskJSON.put("assignee", historicTaskInstance.getAssignee());
        } else {
          taskJSON.putNull("assignee");
        }

Re: question about rest service

whdwsl — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 02:01:14 GMT

hi, frederikheremans , thanks for replying. i do use the version 5.10 .

i still have some questions. what does the task owner mean? which business situation it is used? and when the owner should be setted in coding? is there a introduction?

any one can help?

Re: question about rest service

jbarrez — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 09:37:24 GMT

i still have some questions. what does the task owner mean? which business situation it is used? and when the owner should be setted in coding? is there a introduction?

The owner is the person responsible for the task. But the owner can delegate to another user to actually do it. When this task is done, the owner is notified.

Re: question about rest service

whdwsl — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 10:00:23 GMT

hi, jbarrez . thanks for your replying.

i searched the source of activiti-engine and found the task owner can be used as follow：
1. taskServiceImpl. delegateTask(String taskId, String userId)    this method can delegate a task to a user
        delegate ：one task can have one owner and one assignee .

The owner is the person responsible for the task. But the owner can delegate to another user to actually do it. When this task is done, the owner is notified.

it means we can delegate the task to a user. after this user complete the task，it will be assigned to the owner。here is a tip :when the user complete the task delegated to him, we should use the method：taskServiceImpl. resolveTask(String taskId) instead of

task.complete()

。resolveTask have two steps：
1> update the task status to DelegationState. RESOLVED
2> invoke task. setAssignee(owner)

delegateTask（taskId, userId） can do the follow：
1> query the task through taskId
2> update the task status to DelegationState.PENDING
3> if the task.getOwner == null ，task.setOwner(assignee)
4> Task.setAssignee(userId);

about involved user of a task:
        when we querying user`s task， involvedUser can be a condition 。in the query sql,   we can see the following snippet：
                  <if test="involvedUser != null">
        And ACT_RU_IDENTITYLINK.USER_ID_ = #{involvedUser}
      </if>
         so Involved   means assignee, candidate user, owner

conclusion：
1. Owner can be used only(is`t strict? ) in delegating a task
2. Involved means related，it contains assignee, candidate user, owner but no candidate group

Re: question about rest service

jbarrez — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:36:58 GMT

Thats a very good summary indeed 🙂