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1. Re: sub process return
sforema Dec 15, 2005 9:53 AM (in response to sforema)Hmmm... I am using 3.0 (not the alpha).
I get this error when trying to get to the sub process:java.lang.NullPointerException: can't create a process instance when processDefinition is null at org.jbpm.graph.exe.ProcessInstance.<init>(ProcessInstance.java:60) at org.jbpm.graph.node.ProcessState.execute(ProcessState.java:86) at org.jbpm.graph.def.Node.enter(Node.java:284) at org.jbpm.graph.def.Transition.take(Transition.java:92) at org.jbpm.graph.def.Node.leave(Node.java:349) at org.jbpm.graph.def.Node.leave(Node.java:313) at com.cdhps.jbpm.NodePersist.transition(NodePersist.java:304) at com.cdhps.jbpm.NodePersist.execute(NodePersist.java:216) at org.jbpm.graph.def.Action.execute(Action.java:79) at org.jbpm.graph.def.Node.execute(Node.java:295) at org.jbpm.graph.def.Node.enter(Node.java:284) at org.jbpm.graph.def.Transition.take(Transition.java:92) at org.jbpm.graph.def.Node.leave(Node.java:349) at org.jbpm.graph.node.StartState.leave(StartState.java:73) at org.jbpm.graph.exe.Token.signal(Token.java:127) at org.jbpm.graph.exe.Token.signal(Token.java:92) at com.cdhps.jbpm.ProcessWrapper.startProcess(ProcessWrapper.java:170) at com.cdhps.jbpm.ProcessWrapper$ProcessWrapperThread.run(ProcessWrapper.java:765) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
main process xml snippet:<process-state name="spawn"> <sub-process name="simple2" /> <transition name="tr1" to="fork1"></transition> </process-state>
sub process xml:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <process-definition xmlns="http://jbpm.org/3/jpdl" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://jbpm.org/3/jpdl http://jbpm.org/xsd/jpdl-3.0.xsd" name="simple2"> <start-state name="start"> <task> <controller> <variable name="color" /> <variable name="size" /> </controller> </task> <transition name="tr1" to="uno"></transition> </start-state> <end-state name="end"> <event type="node-enter"> <action name="action1" class="com.cdhps.jbpm.EndStateAction"></action> </event> </end-state> <node name="uno"> <action class="com.cms.workflow.sample_simple2.Uno"></action> <transition name="tr1" to="end"></transition> </node> </process-definition>
the sub process is there. I can run it and it works fine. I have a bad feeling this is a bug with 3.0 that has been fixed and I am loath to rebuild my jbpm database to potentially break something else I have already tested... -
2. Re: sub process return
guy.walker Dec 15, 2005 12:09 PM (in response to sforema)Not sure this is your problem but you might want to read
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBPM-457
which talks about some bug linking parent process to sub process. I *seem* to have got round that problem by using saveProcessDefinition (from a GraphSession) to deploy the process rather than the ProcessArchiveDeployer.
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3. Re: sub process return
sforema Dec 15, 2005 1:45 PM (in response to sforema)I could see the ProcessInstance.end() method was adjusted from 3.0 to 3.1alpha (so something wasn't likely right), and I didn't want to upgrade to 3.1 yet...
I needed persistance, so I just wrote my own ProcessState as a node extension. It was pretty easy. Essentially the two things needed done:
1. the parent must go into a wait state if execution returns (due to error or end)
2. the child's end must signal the parent token to continue.
The additional benefit to this was that I can see it in the process designer.
Sean