Task descriptions not possible?

[sebastian.s]

Hello forum,

I was sure I posted this a couple of hours ago but now that I wanted to check if there were any answers I could not find my post? In case you find it, sorry for the double post.

My question is regarding the description of tasks. The class Task has a member called description and the respective getter and setter but in the GPD there is no way to specify the description of a task. So I tried editing the process definition manually by adding an attribute called description to a task but Eclipse told me that this does not match the schema. Adding an element description inside the task definition did not work either.

How can I specificy the description of a task? Just at runtime?

Thanks for any hints

Sebastian

[kukeltje]

Sounds like an omission in the xsd. But it could also be that the parser does not read it (yet) even if you set it in the jpdl file (I checked the source and afaics it does get parsed. So please file a jira issue for the combined issue

[sebastian.s]

So if I specify it like

<task .. description="my description">
</task>

it should work but it was left out in the schema?

[sebastian.s]

Okay I checked the schema. There is just a description for a process but not for the task elemetns defined. I will check JIRA and fill an issue if there isn't one yet for this.

[sebastian.s]

Here we go:

the issue regarding the incomplete schema:
https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBPM-2554

the issue regarding the missing possibility to set the description in the GDP
https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBPM-2555

[kukeltje]

I'll pick these two issues up myself since I need them to in the not so distant future.

Regarding specifying it, no it does not get picked up (from what I have seen) so it should be 'parsed' as well. This is not difficult, just adding a few lines in JpdlParser.java

[sebastian.s]

Sounds good. As soon as you have done this you could supply me with a patch for testing? I a need the description "feature", too.

[kukeltje]

I have to take my previous comment back. I thought one was for the xsd, one for parsing. I'll only pick up one for the xsd/parsing (the GPD is not my cup of tea).