Question regarding identityService

[srón]

I have some bpmn-xml files deployed in an application I finally managed to write. Usergroups are defined in the xmls as follows:

 <potentialOwner>
      <resourceAssignmentExpression>
          <formalExpression>1_PRODUKTAPPLIKATEUR</formalExpression>
        </resourceAssignmentExpression>
      </potentialOwner>         
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I stored all group-names in an enum, so it is not a real problem for me, and yet I am astounded that the following task call:

getEngine().getIdentityService().createGroupQuery()‍

is always empty. According to the userguide  "The IdentityService […] allows the management (creation, update, deletion, querying, …) of groups and users." - so normally I should get all of the users with the aforementioned code snippet.

[jbarrez]

I don't follow. You stored your groups in an enum? And you expect the groupQuery (that does a database query) to return those?
Did you create the groups through the GroupService.

[srón]

The enum holds the users, but of course, I do not expect to grab them (id est the enum's user variables) by the anctiviti engine. But since the following has been done…

<code>
ProcessEngine processEngine = ProcessEngines.getDefaultProcessEngine();
RepositoryService repositoryService = processEngine.getRepositoryService();
repositoryService.createDeployment()
  .addClasspathResource("myOwn.bpmn20.xml")
  .deploy();
</code>

…and myOwn.bpmn20.xml already contains the groups, and they should be accessible with the createGroupQuery() - method of the identity service, yet the list of groups that method gives back is always empty.

[jbarrez]

Still, you haven't answered my questions. Do you have these groups in your ACT_ID_GROUP table? That's the only way they'll pop up in the groupQuery results.

[srón]

Sorry for not having answered concisely, err - my ACT_ID_GROUP table is empty So then I will have to make use of the identity service to create those groups(?)