Parsing custom extensionElements in 5.12

[das]

Hi,

I'm using custom <extensionElements> to create taskListeners for specific tasks.
In 5.11 I'm using a BpmnParseListener and reading the tags via "taskElement.element("extensionElements").elementsNS(..)".

I tried the new BpmnParseHandler, but the XML information is not available.
As far as I could find, all XML info is parsed in BpmnXMLConverter and converted into POJOs to be used in the parse handlers.

Any pointers on how to handle custom XML extensions in 5.12?

Thanks

[pkromolowski]

I have the same problem. Is there a way to access the XML structure directly from BpmnParseHandlers?

Thanks.

[jbarrez]

It seems we have not completely made the new approach backwards compatible with the old one. The new BPMN model classes don't expose it currently. I'll make sure we add it.

Unfortunately, this means 5.12 is not usable for you if you depend on that feature. You could always try to fetch the xml yourself and parse it, but that is really cumbersome of course…

[pkromolowski]

Thank you! Does it mean that we may expect this feature in 5.13 or in some "intermediate" builds?

[das]

Thank you for the answer.

I'll keep using 5.11 until this is added.

[jbarrez]

Thank you! Does it mean that we may expect this feature in 5.13 or in some "intermediate" builds?

Yes, it is important enough to fix it for 5.13. We might indeed push out a stable snapshot version in a few weeks.

[conradi]

I just wanted to add that we have the same issue.

For an intermediate solution, it would even suffice to patch our local activiti with the appropriate git commit.

[conradi]

There is the same problem when trying to get custom attributes of a Task.

[trademak]

Yes, this is on our roadmap for 5.13. We'll try to add the necessary functionality ASAP.

Best regards,

[sebastian_s]

I could not find the JIRA issue for this problem. Please point me to the JIRA issue.

Thanks.