Access SpringProcessEngineConfiguration in rest-webapp

[b_schnarr]

Hello at all,

I need to inject custom configuration parameters into the rest webapp. Therefore, I want to use the existing activiti-context.xml and the processEngineConfigurationBean. But I do not succeed in accessing the processEngineConfigurationBean.
In another post, there is written: "You can always access the Spring application context and get the configuration bean from that."
But as I am not a skilled java developer, this information is not enough.

Could someone give me a little code example how I can read in those config parameters within a rest-class? Lets say I extend the standard bean:

<bean id="processEngineConfiguration" class="org.activiti.spring.SpringProcessEngineConfiguration">
      <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
      <property name="transactionManager" ref="transactionManager" />
      <property name="databaseSchemaUpdate" value="true" />
      <property name="mailServerHost" value="localhost" />
      <property name="mailServerPort" value="5025" />
      <property name="jobExecutorActivate" value="false" />
        <property name="customFormTypes">
          <list>
            <bean class="org.activiti.rest.form.UserFormType"/>
            <bean class="org.activiti.rest.form.ProcessDefinitionFormType"/> 
            <bean class="org.activiti.rest.form.MonthFormType"/>   
          </list>
        </property>
   </bean>
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with the two parameters ltpaKey and ltpaPassword:

<bean id="processEngineConfiguration" class="org.activiti.spring.SpringProcessEngineConfiguration">
      <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
      <property name="transactionManager" ref="transactionManager" />
      <property name="databaseSchemaUpdate" value="true" />
      <property name="mailServerHost" value="localhost" />
      <property name="mailServerPort" value="5025" />
      <property name="jobExecutorActivate" value="false" />
               <property name="ltpaKey" value="****" />
               <property name="ltpaPassword" value="***" />
        <property name="customFormTypes">
          <list>
            <bean class="org.activiti.rest.form.UserFormType"/>
            <bean class="org.activiti.rest.form.ProcessDefinitionFormType"/> 
            <bean class="org.activiti.rest.form.MonthFormType"/>   
          </list>
        </property>
   </bean>
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How can I access those values in the rest-classes?

Thank you very much and best regards
Ben

[b_schnarr]

The values are both null, so the values does´n get injected when I do it this way….

[b_schnarr]

Ok, this does not lead to a solution. Another idea: I just use a .properties-file containing those 2 Strings.
But the question is where I must create this file so that I can access it from my CustomRestAuthenticator and later on, configure it after the deployment?

Thanks and best regards
Ben

[jbarrez]

If it's a regular properties file - which you read wiht the java.util.Properties package it's just a matter of putting it on the classpath (shared lib , WEB-INF/…/class, or whatever web container you're using), and loading it in your custom class.

[b_schnarr]

Thank you very much. This worked!