Activiti [5.17.0] Modeler : context Root change not supported

[skay]

Hi,

The new Activiti Modeler (5.17.0) is wonderful, but does not support changing activiti-explorer.war Context Root

- Change the name of the application activiti-explorer.war into myactiviti-explorer.war
- Deploy into your container
- Log in / Go to Workbench / new model.
- Modeler cannot display any component/tool/image.

Indeed, context root has been hard coded into a javascript config file :

activiti-explorer.war\editor-app\app-cfg,js

var ACTIVITI = ACTIVITI || {};

ACTIVITI.CONFIG = {
   'contextRoot' : '/activiti-explorer/service',
};

Could this change to something a little more transparent ?
To clarify with a minimal change : this configuration point could be centralized to some file located in WEB-INF/classes

Best Regards

[jbarrez]

You have indeed to make the change in app-cfg.js.

How would you make it work from WEB-INF/classes? That is a JAVA path, not javascript. How would it know to contact the server … if it doesnt know the correct root to get the info from?

[skay]

Well, this wasn't necessary on <5.16.4
…and this is a proposal for a workaround.
By the way I still encounter an issue;
Opening the Modeler for a deployed process (nb Edit Process button) forwards to a white page with this workaround.
Back to the workspace (back browser, I can see the editable entry created.
If I select that entry it's ok and Modeler appears with the editable view of the process.
So it seems that the context configuration isn't centralized to that file.

[jbarrez]

> Well, this wasn't necessary on <5.16.4

No; because this was a version with a lot less features. Feel free to use the older version if you believe it is superior.

> …and this is a proposal for a workaround.


My point is that is isnt a workaround, as the javascript has no way of accessing the WEB-INF/classes


> Opening the Modeler for a deployed process (nb Edit Process button) forwards to a white page with this workaround.


I would need to check that, and if it is like that, then it is bugged.