Hi,

why is there not the same functionality for transient variables as for persistent ones when copying variables from a superprocess to a subprocess (process state)?

I have seen this thread

http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=70407

The proposed solution as seen in jira

http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBPM-399

is implemented in jbpm 3.1.2 that I am actually using.
I think this solution is simple but does not fit for the most common case, that a superprocess calls
a common suprocess and the subprocess does not know anything about the superprocess.

More specific, there could be different superprocesses with different transient variable names.
These superprocesses may call a general subprocess...
Using the present solution forces the subprocess to know about all possible variablenames of
all possible superprocesses - that's really bad!

What can we do?

Is it difficult to implement similar code for transient variables as you did for persistent ones?

 // loop over all the variable accesses

 Iterator iter = variableAccesses.iterator();

 while (iter.hasNext()) {

 VariableAccess variableAccess = (VariableAccess) iter.next();

 // if this variable access is readable

 if (variableAccess.isReadable()) {

 // the variable is copied from the super process variable name

 // to the sub process mapped name

 String variableName = variableAccess.getVariableName();

 Object value = superContextInstance.getVariable(variableName, superProcessToken);

 String mappedName = variableAccess.getMappedName();

 log.debug("copying super process var '"+variableName+"' to sub process var '"+mappedName+"': "+value);

 if (value!=null) {

 subContextInstance.setVariable(mappedName, value);

 }

 }

 }

Should I open a jira issue? Please give me a hint for a good approach to solve this problem..

Best regards

Harry