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Why complete the human task with contentdata, however the process variable is null
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Hi!</p><p>I'm using the local task service with jBPM5.3 version. Question is when I complete the task with contentdata with the following code, the process variable is null. Through <span style="color: #333333; text-decoration: underline;">kcontext.getVariable("quantity")</span><span style="color: #333333;">, </span><span style="color: #333333;">I get null.</span></p><p>I'm confused about the relationship between the process variables and contentdata.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><pre class="jive-pre"><code class="jive-code jive-java">   TaskService client = LocalHumanTaskService.getTaskService(ksession);
 
    Map<String,Object> data = <font color="navy"><b>new</b></font> HashMap<String,Object>();
    data.put(<font color="red">"priority"</font>, request.getParameter(<font color="red">"priority"</font>));
    data.put(<font color="red">"modelNumber"</font>, request.getParameter(<font color="red">"modelNumber"</font>));
    data.put(<font color="red">"quantity"</font>, request.getParameter(<font color="red">"quantity"</font>));
    ContentData contentData = <font color="navy"><b>null</b></font>;
    <font color="navy"><b>if</b></font> (data != <font color="navy"><b>null</b></font>) <font color="navy">{</font>
       ByteArrayOutputStream bos = <font color="navy"><b>new</b></font> ByteArrayOutputStream();
       ObjectOutputStream out;
       <font color="navy"><b>try</b></font> <font color="navy">{</font>
           out = <font color="navy"><b>new</b></font> ObjectOutputStream(bos);
           out.writeObject(data);
           out.close();
           contentData = <font color="navy"><b>new</b></font> ContentData();
           contentData.setContent(bos.toByteArray());
           contentData.setAccessType(AccessType.Inline);
        <font color="navy">}</font> <font color="navy"><b>catch</b></font> (IOException e) <font color="navy">{</font>
           e.printStackTrace();
        <font color="navy">}</font>
     <font color="navy">}</font>
   
     client.complete(taskId, userId, contentData);
 
</code></pre><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Could anyone help me, please?</p><p>Any help is appreciated. Thank you!</p><p>Best Regards</p></div>
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