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Event-based Gateway in Unit Test

gokceng1 — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 13:38:29 GMT

Hi,I've an event-based gateway in my process. In one outgoing flow of it there is a timer and in the other one there is a message catching event. I'm executing timer event by calling managementService.executeJob(delayTimer.getId());After my process ends(I thought this way), I've checked if there are

Re: Event-based Gateway in Unit Test

frederikherema1 — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 11:29:56 GMT

Event-based gateway with 2 outgoing flows will take both outgoing paths, this is how activiti works. If you can't the process to stop, you can add a subprocess around it with a boundary-event, that has "cancelActivity=true" which ends the subprocess (and all executions in it) when the event occurs…

Re: Event-based Gateway in Unit Test

kiyer — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 20:40:17 GMT

This behavior seems counter to the intuition described in the documentation: http://www.activiti.org/userguide/#bpmnEventbasedGateway
The Join gateway in the user guide example is an Exclusive Gateway. In my understanding the behavior of the event based gateway should be:
Take a one of the mutually exclusive paths based on which event is fired first. Is the behavior mentioned above a bug?

Re: Event-based Gateway in Unit Test

kiyer — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 20:55:48 GMT

Re: Event-based Gateway in Unit Test

trademak — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 14:14:02 GMT

Hi,

The behavior of the event based gateway only will take one of the outgoing paths. The first event that's received will be processed and the event-based gateway is finished.

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