Asynchronous tasks and handling exceptions

[donovanmuller]

Hi,

Could anyone shed some light on the questions raised in the following thread?
http://forums.activiti.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=3199

More specifically in my case, how do you replay the async task that threw the exception?

Thanks

[frederikherema1]

THe async stuff is handled by the job executor. So if it fails, it's executed again (retied) for, by default, 3 times. THis is configurable in the configuration.

[donovanmuller]

Can you manually retry (via API etc.) the task at a later time?  (after all three retries have failed the process seems to wait at the task that failed)

[frederikherema1]

Yes. Please check the javadocs of ManagementService, this exposes that functionality (executeJob(id)).

[donovanmuller]

Great, thanks so much.