Availability of 'initiating participant' as variable?

[kukeltje]

I was wondering if the initiating actor is available somewhere, in the pvm e.g. as a java principle or whatever. This is needed to be able to have a 'start event' and a user task after that where the user task is assigned to the initiating participant.

[tom.baeyens]

for now, you can create a static thread local somewhere in the bpmn code for this.

public static ThreadLocal authenticatedUserId = new ThreadLocal();

try {
 authenticatedUserId.set("johndoe");
 executionService.startProcessInstanceByKey("ICL");
} finally {
 authenticatedUserId.set(null);
}

then in the start event you can access that thread local directly. i'll integrate functionality like that in the pvm, but it is not yet there.

[kukeltje]

I know this 'trick', but I think the issue is that the server side part of the console should do something like this. It does not help if I do it in the bpmn part. Sure, for the testcases etc it helps. I'll definately do this.

But the method:

public ProcessInstanceRef newInstance(String definitionId, Map<String, Object> processVars)
 {
 Environment env = ((EnvironmentFactory)processEngine).openEnvironment();

 try
 {
 ExecutionService execService = this.processEngine.getExecutionService();
 Execution exec = execService.startProcessInstanceById(definitionId);
 execService.setVariables(exec.getId(), processVars);

 return ModelAdaptor.adoptExecution((ExecutionImpl)exec);
 }
 finally{
 env.close();
 }
 }

in ProcessManagementImpl in the console-integration project should get this as a argument from the calling class which is in the bpm-console. So it needs an adaption in there to (soag) , which should be done in sync.

[tom.baeyens]

yes. good point. console currently doesn't pass the authenticated userId to the engine operations.

https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBPM-2482

[kukeltje]

It does pass them on for task related calls from what I've seen. But the other operations need them to, certainly if you want to have the actor for auditing reasons.