Alter the flow of a process instance

[adrianr]

Hi, I need some way to alter the flow of a process instance, for example I have a process instance wich is in node A and I want to arbitrary move it to node D, node A and D don't have transitions between them. I know this doesn't respect the normal flow and is very awfull, but i need it to simulate some special behaviour. I've been searching in javadoc, and I've found that Token has a method called setNode(Node).
So, one option would be:

instance.getRootToken().setNodo(node);

I tested it and apparently it works, although I don't know if this damages other things like logging, or if there's a better way for doing this.

Thanks,
Adrian R.

[kukeltje]

You could (temporarily) add a transition between the nodes as well, but I would not do that. Your solution is ok. It does not brake anything internally in the core. So if it does not break anything for you, you can use it.

[adrianr]

as i suspected this method doesn't log changes, so I think I need to consider your idea of adding temporarily transitions between the nodes, because I need logging the change.

[kukeltje]

I just remembered something... What I (once) did was create one kind of 'I'm-doing-something-out-of-the ordinary' node. That node had an actionhandler on node-enter that logged something AND looked at a process variable to see what node to go to next. There were no incomming or outgoing transitions but I did get logging