problem using mail inside timer

[tongz]

It's mentioned in the doc that "Anywhere you are allowed to specify actions in the process, you can specify a mail action". But it seems that mail action doesn't work inside timer.

I'm using jPDL 3.2.2. Any idea?

Thanks.

[anuragpaliwal]

How did you defined mail action inside timer?

[tongz]

That's exactly the problem - I can't define mail in timer.

I tried:

<state name="resolve-issue">
 <event type="node-enter">
 <mail name="notification"
 to="user1@localhost"
 template="notification">
 </mail>
 </event>
 <timer name="timer-reminder-1" duedate="5 seconds">
 <mail name="reminder-1"
 to="user1@localhost"
 template="reminder">
 </mail>
 </timer>
 <transition to="end"></transition>
 </state>

But it's not valid format - mail not allowed in timer. So in this case, I have to write an action to send email?

Thanks.

[anuragpaliwal]

Thats the way I have implemented it for now in my application.

[kukeltje]

A mail action (jbpm has a mail action component) is different from a mail node. What you tried is embedding a mail node inside an event. That does not, nor will it work.

[anuragpaliwal]

org.jbpm.mail.Mail implements ActionHandler....

[tongz]

Thank you all for the reply.

kukeltje, my understanding from the document is that "mail" is an action and "mail-node" is a node? Also, here "mail" does work fine in event, but just not valid in timer.

anuragpaliwal, are you saying you implemented this with "mail" or org.jbpm.mail.Mail? I suppose it's the later. The following code works fine using org.jbpm.mail.Mail:

<state name="resolve-issue">
 <event type="node-enter">
 <mail name="notification"
 to="user1@localhost"
 template="notification">
 </mail>
 </event>
 <timer name="timer-reminder-1" duedate="5 seconds">
 <action class="org.jbpm.mail.Mail">
 <to>user1@localhost</to>
 <template>actor-reminder-1</template>
 </action>
 </timer>
 <transition to="end"></transition>
 </state>

[koen.aers]

Is the xml validation a problem or rather the execution? In the first case it is as simple as correcting the xsd (or throwing out the xsd reference for the validation not to occur). In the second case it could be a bug in the xml parsing. In both cases you can file a JIRA issue, preferably with a testcase producing the problem.

Regards,
Koen

[tongz]

The exception I got is xml validation problem, which occurs while deploying the process definition. JIRA issue filed.

Regards,
Tong

[jalamos]

I have the same problem because I need send one mail in a date specified like "#{Date} - 2 business days". How do that???