Add EndEvent listener programmatically not working

[felipe1]

I need to add an event listener to every end event, so I'll have a way to notify users when a process instance has concluded.

I've done some research and find out this post (http://forums.activiti.org/content/manipulating-bpmns-programmatically-prior-deployment) that describes exactly what I want to do.

I have create a ProcessParseHandler like that:

public class ParseHandlerEndListener extends ProcessParseHandler {
   @Override
   protected void executeParse(BpmnParse bpmnParse, Process process) {
      ActivitiListener endEventListener = new ActivitiListener();

      endEventListener.setEvent(ExecutionListener.EVENTNAME_END);
      endEventListener.setImplementation(MyListener.class.getName());
      endEventListener.setImplementationType(ImplementationType.IMPLEMENTATION_TYPE_CLASS);

      process.setExecutionListeners(Arrays.asList(endEventListener));
   }
}
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And register it in my <b>activiti.cfg.xml</b>

   <bean
      id="processEngineConfiguration"
      class="org.activiti.cdi.CdiJtaProcessEngineConfiguration">
      …
      <property name="postBpmnParseHandlers">
         <list>
            <bean class="com.mycompany.ParseHandlerEndListener" />
         </list>
      </property>
   </bean>
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The listener is declared like so:

@Named
public class MyListener implements ExecutionListener {
   private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

   @Override
   public void notify(DelegateExecution execution) throws Exception {
          // listener code
   }
}
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When I publish a new process, the <b>executeParse(BpmnParse bpmnParse, Process process) </b> is called as expected (I have debbuged and added some logs to check), and no exception is thrown. However, when I start and finish a process instance the <b>notify</b> method is not being called.

If I add the listener directly into the process definition the <b>notify</b> is called and everything works perfectly.

   <process
      id="cushman-reembolso-fretado"
      name="Reembolso fretado"
      isExecutable="true">

      <extensionElements>
         <activiti:executionListener
            class="br.com.glr.workflow.activiti.impl.NotificaProcessoConcluidoActiviti"
            event="end" />
      </extensionElements>
         ….
         </process>
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[trademak]

Which version of Activiti are you using?
The code looks ok on first hand. Is this problem still present in the latest Activiti version?

Best regards,

[felipe1]

I'm using 5.15 I'll check if there is a newer version and try to reproduce the behaviour on it. Thanks Tijs 🙂

[jfigueiredo]

I'm using 5.16.4 and i'm having the same behaviour. Do you still have this problem?

Thanks.

[jbarrez]

Would be good if you can create a simple unit test that demonstrates this, so we can quickly fix this.

[maxr24 · Accepted solution]

This may be a pretty late reply, but for anyone else looking at this thread (like I was for a while):

You want to add that to the PREBpmnParseHandlers not POSTBpmnParseHandlers. The documentation for this is pretty non-existent, but if you set it as a POST handler the execution listeners will be set after the process definition entity is created, making it useless.