Accessing <variable> in ActionHandlers the SEAM Way

[asachde]

What is the SEAM way of accessing variables created in the start tasks? Currently I am doing the following:

CustomerBean cust = (CustomerBean) arg0.getContextInstance().getVariable("cust");


Is that right? If I use @In annotation the variable is always null. Please advise.

[norman.richards]

Are you sure you have associated a task with the conversation?

[asachde]

The process is a long running one and cant be in the conversation scope.

[andygrav]

I am just starting with seam but as I understood you can inject something from a business scope into a conversation scope.

From the docs:
@BeginTask(taskIdParameter="taskId")

Resumes work on an incomplete jBPM task. Specifies that a long-running conversation begins when this method returns a non-null outcome without exception. This conversation is associated with the jBPM task specified in the named request parameter. Within the context of this conversation, a business process context is also defined, for the business process instance of the task instance.

The jBPM TaskInstance will be available in a request context variable named taskInstance. The jPBM ProcessInstance will be available in a request context variable named processInstance
taskIdParameter ? the name of a request parameter which holds the id of the task. Default to "taskId", which is also the default used by the Seam taskList JSF component.

After doing the above
I would have thought that
@In
CustomerBean cust;
would do exactly the same as the code you have?

Is that not the case?

I would be interested to know how you get on.

Andy Bailey
www.hazlorealidad.com

[asachde]

Seems like you have to use jbpm (original post) calls in the action handlers as the seam interceptors do not fire and hence cant us @In in the ActionHandler