Email Task Attachments

[conradi]

I would like to add attachments to the emails send by activiti (thread http://forums.activiti.org/content/send-email-attachment and others expressed a similar desire).
I know that I can write my own service task logic but since there exists already a task for writing emails, I think one should enhance that accordingly.

I propose to add one new property to the mail task configuration: attachments

This can either be a java.util.File, a String, or a javax.activation.DataSource, or an array of one of these objects.
A file is just attached as is, with the name of the file as name of the attachment, and a String is interpreted as path to a file.
In case of a DataSource, the name attribute of the data source is used as name of the attachement.
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I am of course open for different suggestions for this interface.

I have prepared a patch for this functionality including tests and user manual (see above).
Should I add this patch to the thread, or should I open a jira issue for it?

Best regards, Heinz-Dieter

[conradi]

I have opened a jira issue for this: (http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/ACT-2008)

[trademak]

Sorry for the late reply, the JIRA issue is the right way 😉
We'll have a look at the patch and if there are no concerns it will be merged with Activiti trunk.

Thanks,

[skalex]

Hi there, nice stuff, any updates on this yet?

I'm about to implement this feature as I need attachments for email tasks, what would you recommend me to do taking into account that this is 'perhaps' going to be merged officially ?

Also, I would need some help to apply this patch, as i haven't done it before (kind of newbie, but impossible is nothing, huh?). Tell me if I miss anything:

If i'm right, I have to apply this patch to the activiti-engine sources and use my custom (patched) jar instead of the official maven release.

Digging around I found another solution to this problem (http://forums.activiti.org/comment/25943#comment-25943) with less modifications but seems to do the same (overwrite emailtaskbehavior)

What should I do to make it less painful on later updates?

Thanks in advance for comments and suggestions

[martin_grofcik]

Hi,

the easiest way to get your proposal into the activiti source is to clone project from GitHub and create pull request.

Regards
Martin