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Extension Elements in Lanes

jakub_telicki
Champ in-the-making
Champ in-the-making
Hi,

Following the User Guide (http://activiti.org/userguide/index.html#bpmnCustomExtensions) I would like to add properties to Lanes used in process definition.

I have created "extensionElements" element in Lane definition and added "activiti:field" element inside. Definition is parsed correctly and the process can be deployed on the Activiti engine.
However during parsing (by custom parser usage) or after process is deployed (through RepositoryService), I am not able to access data defined in the extensionElement.

Is the extensionElement supported for Lanes ?
Maybe I'm doing something wrong and someone could give some hints, thanks.

Definition:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<definitions xmlns="http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/20100524/MODEL" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:activiti="http://activiti.org/bpmn" xmlns:bpmndi="http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/20100524/DI" xmlns:omgdc="http://www.omg.org/spec/DD/20100524/DC" xmlns:omgdi="http://www.omg.org/spec/DD/20100524/DI" typeLanguage="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" expressionLanguage="http://www.w3.org/1999/XPath" targetNamespace="http://www.activiti.org/test">
  <collaboration id="Collaboration">
    <participant id="swimlane-extension-pool" name="Pool" processRef="swimlane-extension"></participant>
  </collaboration>
  <process id="swimlane-extension" name="process_pool1" isExecutable="true">
    <laneSet id="laneSet_swimlane-extension">
      <lane id="lane1" name="Lane 1">
         <extensionElements>            
            <activiti:field name="property1" stringValue="propertyValue1"/>
         </extensionElements>
        <flowNodeRef>usertask1</flowNodeRef>
        <flowNodeRef>endevent1</flowNodeRef>
      </lane>
      <lane id="lane2" name="Lane 2">
      <extensionElements>            
            <activiti:field name="property2" stringValue="propertyValue2"/>
         </extensionElements>
        <flowNodeRef>usertask2</flowNodeRef>
      </lane>
    </laneSet>
    <userTask id="usertask1" name="User Task"></userTask>
    <userTask id="usertask2" name="User Task"></userTask>
    <sequenceFlow id="flow2" sourceRef="usertask1" targetRef="usertask2"></sequenceFlow>
    <endEvent id="endevent1" name="End"></endEvent>
    <sequenceFlow id="flow3" sourceRef="usertask2" targetRef="endevent1"></sequenceFlow>
    <startEvent id="startevent1" name="Start"></startEvent>
    <sequenceFlow id="flow1" sourceRef="startevent1" targetRef="usertask1"></sequenceFlow>
  </process> 
</definitions>

Failing test case:
[java]
    @Test
    @Deployment   
    public void testLaneExtensionElement() {
        ProcessDefinition processDefinition = rule.getRepositoryService().createProcessDefinitionQuery()
                .processDefinitionKey("swimlane-extension").singleResult();
        BpmnModel model = rule.getRepositoryService().getBpmnModel(processDefinition.getId());
        Process bpmnProcess = model.getMainProcess();
        for (Lane l : bpmnProcess.getLanes()) {
            Map<String, List<ExtensionElement>> extensions = l.getExtensionElements();
            Assert.assertTrue(extensions.size() > 0);
        }
    }
[/java]
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trademak
Star Contributor
Star Contributor
Correct, it's not parsed and exported currently. However this would be easy to add, so please create a JIRA issue and I'll look into it.

Thanks,