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Timers not working with unit tests on 5.12

zidia — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 12:37:58 GMT

Hi everybody,I created a simple example process with a Timer Start Event set to R1/PT10S.I modified the activiti.cfg.xml as follows:<bean id="processEngineConfiguration" class="org.activiti.engine.impl.cfg.StandaloneProcessEngineConfiguration"> <property name="databaseSchemaUpdate" val

Re: Timers not working with unit tests on 5.12

trademak — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 15:04:16 GMT

It's a bit difficult to tell if you don't include your unit test code.
In our Activiti test suite we're testing timers a lot, so it's still working.

Best regards,

Re: Timers not working with unit tests on 5.12

zidia — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 08:59:41 GMT

Hi Tijs,
I was testing the processes using a Java main class instead of unit tests and in particular using these lines of code to create the process engine, deploy it and run it.

<java>
ProcessEngine processEngine = ProcessEngines.getDefaultProcessEngine();
RepositoryService repositoryService = processEngine.getRepositoryService();
repositoryService.createDeployment().addInputStream("myProcess.bpmn20.xml",new FileInputStream(filename)).deploy();
RuntimeService runtimeService = processEngine.getRuntimeService();
Map<String, Object> variableMap = new HashMap<String, Object>();
variableMap.put("name", "Activiti");
ProcessInstance processInstance = runtimeService.startProcessInstanceByKey("myProcess", variableMap);
</java>

This was working fine with 5.9 since (as I understood) the ProcessEngine was using the external running Activiti instance and external DB by default. By external I mean the one started by the ant script.

I tested now the process with automatically generated unit tests (after changing the activiti.cfg.xml file and running the H2 database) and the timers are working properly.

thanks,
jovan

Re: Timers not working with unit tests on 5.12

jbarrez — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 11:22:53 GMT

Probably the default process engine doesn't have the job executor enabled anymore.