jbpm 4.3 timer expression

[mpradny]

Hello,

I wanted to configure timer duedate and repeat attributes from instance variables, but I couldn't get direct access to them. After some time with debugger I've found that Juel evaluator of timers doesn't have access to execution context, but to job context only. Instead of #{escalate} I had to use

#{job.execution.variables['escalate']} .

here is xml snippet:

<task g="203,152,92,52" name="initiation" assignee="#{initiator}">
        <on event="start">
              <event-listener class="com.pradny.task.EventHandler">
               <field name="type"><string value="task-start1"/></field>             
              </event-listener>
              <event-listener class="com.pradny.task.EventHandler">
               <field name="type"><object expr="#{escalate}"/></field>             
              </event-listener>
        </on>
       
        <on event="timeout">
              <timer duedate="10 seconds" repeat="#{job.execution.variables['escalate']}"/>
          <event-listener class="com.pradny.task.EventHandler">
               <field name="type"><string value="task-overdue"/></field>             
          </event-listener>
        </on>
        <transition to="approval" />
    </task>

Could anyone confirm that this approach is correct? Is there any reason that wouldn't allow standard access to instance variables?

Thanks,

Martin

[kukeltje]

There is info about this in the jira.... 4.4 will contain what you expect. Cool you found this other solution, never knew something like this would have worked.