JPA variable must pre-exist?

[tstephen]

Hi,

I'm just exploring the JPA variable support and have a question on the expected usage. The example test case JPAVariableTest creates all the entities to be manipulated prior to running the process engine. When I pass in a new (unpersisted) entity I receive an ActivitiException with message 'Entity does not exist…' Is it a requirement that the entity already exist and the process engine merely update it? Ideally I want the process engine to create the entity in response to the initial process instance creation.

cheers,
Tim

[frederikherema1]

The entity should already be persisted when activiti want's to use it (activiti has no knowledge of your app, it only uses the entityManeger passed to retreive the entities by ID).
You should make sure the entities you want to use are persisted, you can do this eg. in an execution-listener on process-start or something simmilar (taskListener, serviceTask, …).