execution.setVariable type

[fussel]

Hi everyone,

I encountered something a little weird. In my process I'm letting a Script Task calculate a value for me (from two form properties that have the type long) , which I set as variable and want to display in the following User Task. According to jUnit everything works fine.
But: when I'm deploying my process ind start it in the Explorer the calculated value is suddenly a float, the Explorer obviously isn't happy with that, because it's expecting a long.
Why is that and is there a way to set the type when I do that execution.setVariable thing?

Here's the relevant part of my process definition:

<startEvent id="startevent1" name="Start" activiti:initiator="initiator">
      <extensionElements>
        <activiti:formProperty id="anzahlAntrag" name="Der wie vielte Urlaubsantrag ist dies im betreffenden Jahr?" type="long" required="true"></activiti:formProperty>
        <activiti:formProperty id="anzahlTage" name="Anzahl der gewünschten Urlaubstage" type="long" required="true"></activiti:formProperty>
        <activiti:formProperty id="zeitraumVom" name="Gewünschter Urlaubsanfang" type="date" datePattern="dd-MM-yyyy" required="true"></activiti:formProperty>
        <activiti:formProperty id="zeitraumBis" name="Gewünschtes Urlaubsende" type="date" datePattern="dd-MM-yyyy" required="true"></activiti:formProperty>
        <activiti:formProperty id="resturlaub" name="Resturlaub (den aktuellen Antrag nicht mit einbezogen)" type="long" required="true"></activiti:formProperty>
      </extensionElements>
</startEvent>
<sequenceFlow id="flow15" sourceRef="startevent1" targetRef="scripttask1"></sequenceFlow>
<scriptTask id="scripttask1" name="Ermittlung des Resturlaubs" scriptFormat="javascript" activiti:autoStoreVariables="false">
      <script>
         var restNeu = resturlaub - anzahlTage;
         execution.setVariable("restNeu", restNeu);
         print('Neuer Resturlaub: '+restNeu);
      </script>
</scriptTask>
<sequenceFlow id="flow20" sourceRef="scripttask1" targetRef="usertask1"></sequenceFlow>
    <userTask id="usertask1" name="Gegenprüfung des Antrags" activiti:candidateGroups="teamAssistance">
      <extensionElements>
        <activiti:formProperty id="urlaubsantragsnummer" name="Urlaubsantragsnummer" type="long" expression="${anzahlAntrag}" writable="false"></activiti:formProperty>
        <activiti:formProperty id="resturlaubNeu" name="Resturlaub nach Abzug der gewünschten Tage" type="string" expression="${restNeu}" writable="false"></activiti:formProperty>
      </extensionElements>
</userTask>
‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

Thanks and best regards

Sarah

[trademak]

Hi Sarah,

If you want it to be a Long you should use Java types in your Javascript script.
Otherwise numbers are automatically transformed to floats from Javascript to Java.

Best regards,

[fussel]

Hey Tijs,

thanks for the hint 🙂