Cannot Interact with Processes after redeployment

[billdoor]

Hello,

i am currently working on a new process, which means i tend to redeploy the Application to our Applicationserver quite often.

my process basically is:

| START_EVT | –> | SERVICE_TASK: prefill some data | —> | USER_TASK: Enter more data | —> | WORK | —> | END_EVT |

In addition there is a Boundary message event attached to the USER_TASK, waiting got the message "msg_cancel", which leads the execution to an alternative Workflow (cleanup database + end_evt)

This works fine:
I deploy the application.

ProcessInstance instance = engine.getRuntimeService().startProcessinstanceByKey("myprocess", "A1");
//engine.getRuntimeService().createExecutionQuery().processInstanceId(instance.getId()).list().length == 1 //(perfect)
engine.getRuntimeService().createExecutionquery().businesskey("A1").singleResult;
Execution execution = engine.getRuntimeService().createExecutionQuery().processInstanceId(instance.getId()).messageEventSubscriptionName("msg_cancel");
Map<String,Object> params = new HashMap<>();
engine.getRuntimeService().messageEventReceived("msg_cancel", execution.getId(), params);

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checking:

//engine.getRuntimeService().createExecutionQuery().processInstanceId(instance.getId()).list().length == 0// (perfect)
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This however stops working once i do the following steps:
1) I start some processes

ProcessInstance instance = engine.getRuntimeService().startProcessinstanceByKey("myprocess", "A1");
ProcessInstance instance = engine.getRuntimeService().startProcessinstanceByKey("myprocess", "A2");
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2) i change some code, not the bpmn mind you.
3) i deploy the application

NOW i can access Processvariables via the taskservice (i can load form-data from usertask), but i cannot commence any actions that would continue execution.
If i query for messageEventSubscriptions on "msg_cancel" i do not get the two Processes (A1, A2) listed anymore.

I assume this has to do with the redeployment and ProcessDefinition revisions?
Is this meant to be this way?

Regards
BillDoor

[jbarrez]

This is a bug in the recent versions of Activiti. On redeploy, the message events are deleted.
We plan to release a new version this week/next week at latest.

[billdoor]

Thank you!