Very Simple Swimlane......help!

[francis1970]

Hi all Jbpm users,
I have a simple process with 2 Task. Every Task has the same assignment class (assignment.AssignTask) which needs to know what kind of user is in charge to execute the Task.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<process-definition xmlns="urn:jbpm.org:jpdl-3.2" name="Gap">
 <swimlane name="buyer" />
 <swimlane name="seller" />


<start-state name="start">
 <transition to="buyItems"></transition>
</start-state>

<task-node name="buyItems">

 <task name="TaskBuyItems" swimlane="buyer">
 <assignment class="assignment.AssignTask" />
 </task>
 <transition to="sellItems"></transition>
</task-node>

<task-node name="sellItems">

 <task name="TaskSellItems" swimlane="seller">
 <assignment class="assignment.AssignTask" />
 </task>
 <transition to="end"></transition>
</task-node>

As you can see the swimlane is just a flag....inside the AssignTask class I look for buyers and sellers list....

The problem is that I cannot read the value of the Swimlane inside the assignment.AssignTask class...

public void assign(Assignable arg, ExecutionContext arg1) throws Exception {

 SwimlaneInstance swim = arg1.getTaskInstance().getSwimlaneInstance(); // RETURNS NULL

 String actorId = arg1.getTaskInstance().
 getActorId(); // ALSO THIS RETURNS NULL
 }

Do I need to set up users/groups on the database in order to use swimlanes ? In this case the users/groups check-up has been already done by the web application, so I only need somehow to read the swimlane in the Task Assignment class....

Any help ?
Thanks

[salaboy21]

I think you must think the problem with this thought in mind...
remember that you have to things called task (Task-Node and Task)
Other thing that you must remember is the TaskMgmtInstance class..
that lets you Manage all your task instances. So
i think the following lines of code makes you clear what i'm talking about:

TaskMgmtInstance taskMgmtInstance = processInstance.getTaskMgmtInstance();
String actorId=taskMgmtInstance.getSwimlaneInstance("boss").getActorId();

[francis1970]

Hi thanks a lot for your reply. I made confusion between Task instance and Task management Instance

Map map = arg1.getTaskMgmtInstance().getSwimlaneInstances();
Set set = map.keySet();
Iterator iter = set.iterator();
 while (iter.hasNext()) {
 String key = (String)iter.next();
 SwimlaneInstance swim = (SwimlaneInstance)map.get(key);
 // This returns "buyer" or "seller" depending on the
 // Task
 System.out.println("name " +swim.getName());
 }

Now I know in which swim lane I am swimming :-)
Thanks!
Francesco

[salaboy21]

you're welcome!!!
Keep coding!

[kukeltje]

you could also put the assignmenthandler IN the swimlane... much cleaner and no duplication, just pointing to the swimlane in a task