persisting process description into xml format

[kv]

Hi all,
I am a novice to jbpm so this might be a silly question.
Is there any way to "persist" process description into xml format (or any other human readable format)? I use persist in quotes cause I'm not gonna use this for actual persistence but rather for debugging purposes.
Thanks,
kv.

[kukeltje]

it is persisted in the database in objects AND in xml format. I do not know the command to retrieve it, but look at http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=76164 Alex talks about custom files there, but afaik it is true for processdefinition.xml as wel

Ronald

[koen.aers]

From the class FileArchiveParser :

public ProcessDefinition readFromArchive(ProcessArchive processArchive, ProcessDefinition processDefinition) {
 FileDefinition fileDefinition = (FileDefinition) processDefinition.getDefinition(FileDefinition.class);
 Map entries = processArchive.getEntries();
 Iterator iter = entries.keySet().iterator();
 while (iter.hasNext()) {
 String entryName = (String) iter.next();
 if (! "processdefinition.xml".equals(entryName)) {
 if (fileDefinition == null) {
 fileDefinition = new FileDefinition();
 processDefinition.addDefinition(fileDefinition);
 }
 byte[] entry = (byte[]) entries.get(entryName);
 if(entry != null) {
 fileDefinition.addFile(entryName, entry);
 }

 }
 }
 return processDefinition;
 }

So I am afraid the processdefinition.xml is not in the database... You could nevertheless add your file parser that does this job.

Regards,
Koen

[kukeltje]

hmm... I was sure Tom mentioned somewhere that adding if you turn off process validation, you could add custom xml to the pd.xml and read the pd runtime and get your custom xml from it.

And then I remembered. It was in Jira

http://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBPM-581
http://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBPM-617

unfortunately it is not in 3.1 but will be in 3.1.1 and 3.2

Ronald