Multiple actions within an event

[richiethom]

Hi,

My business analyst has designed a process whereby I have the following in the process definition:

<state name="syntax-validation">
 <event type="node-enter">
 <action name="High Level Syntax Validation" class="com.myproject.HighLevelSyntaxValidationAction" />
 <action name="Detailed Syntax Validation" class="com.myproject.DetailedSyntaxValidation"/>
 </event>
 <transition to="final-validation" name="passed">
 <action name="Persist Entity" class="com.myproject.PersistEntityAction"></action>
 </transition>
 <transition to="entity-rejected" name="rejected"></transition>
</state>

How do two actions decide between them where to transition to?

My guess is that the first action either specifies a transition (ie the entity being persisted has failed its high level validation) or doesn't specify one at all - effectively falling through - in which case the entity has passed its high level validation and the detailed validation should decided on the transition, but this doesn't seem to work.

Does anyone have any pointers to examples or somewhere in the documentation that would cover this?

Cheers

Rich

[kukeltje]

What do you need functionality wise? This is a technical implementation. I cannot imagine the Business Analyst has designed it that way (or he/she has technical background)

[richiethom]

Hi

Looking through the code again, I think a mistake was made in the design of the process - I've reworked it (not using states any more - using nodes instead, and there is now one action per node), and it's all ok now.

Thanks for your help

Rich