TASK_CREATED event fired after its userTask execution

[cnirparis]

Hello.

I've defined in my

activiti.cfg.xml‍

a listener class which implements

ActivitiEventListener‍

. This class tests the event type TASK_CREATED for doing some work before the task. But I have two problems :

1) I have to check the task name which has fired the event. I use this code :

Task t =  ts.createTaskQuery().processInstanceId(event.getProcessInstanceId()).orderByExecutionId().desc().singleResult();
if (t != null)
{
taskId = t.getId();
taskName = t.getName();
}
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but sometimes, specially with the first task of the process, I get 'null' values, so I cannot know which task fired the event.

2) the event TASK_CREATED is fired AFTER the same name task is executed , as it appears in the logging.
How can I ensure that the event is fired before the task begins to work ?

Thank you.

[cnirparis]

Problem solved. For getting the task name wich is created, you must access the in-memory objects, and not the Database ones, which aren't still commited. So you have to code that way :
<code>
public class ActionListener implements ActivitiEventListener
{


@Override
public void onEvent(ActivitiEvent event)
{

  if (event.getType().equals(ActivitiEventType.TASK_CREATED))
  {

    ActivitiEntityEvent ve = (ActivitiEntityEvent) event;
    TaskEntity t = (TaskEntity) ve.getEntity();
    String taskName = t.getName();
    String taskId = t.getId();
    String piid = t.getProcessInstanceId();
    String processsName = t.getProcessDefinitionId();

    System.out.println("TASK_CREATED - : Process " + processName +  " - Pid #" + piid
      + " : TaskId : # " + taskId
      + " - TaskName : " + taskName
      );
  }
}
</code>
This works only with UserTasks, not serviceTasks. By the way the TaskEntity class is not documented…

[jbarrez]

That's current. Committing happens at the end of the transaction.

TaskEntity is an internal class. In v6 we've interfaced all entities and we'll document those.