[jboss-user] [jBPM Development] - Why cannot use slash(/) in activity name

[HuiSheng Xu]

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"Why cannot use slash(/) in activity name"

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Hi guys,

It is totally weird, that jPDL didn't allow using slash(/) in activity name.  I searched though XML specification and there is no limitation for this.  And, there is no such limitation for transition name, only for activity name.

Now our customer's process need put a slash(/) in an activity name,  I went to do some demostration, Every designing stuff are all right. Then when I try to deploy the process, it tell me the process is invalid.  It is horrible.

So I really want to know, is there any reason that we shouldn't use slash(/) in activity name?  Because if this rule is not necessary, I didn't want to tell our customers that they must change their process to remove all of slash(/).

Here is the validation in JpdlBinding.java
public void parseName(Element element, ActivityImpl activity, Parse parse) {
    String name = XmlUtil.attribute(element, "name", isNameRequired(), parse);
    
    if (name!=null) {
      // basic name validation
      if ("".equals(name)) {
        parse.addProblem(XmlUtil.errorMessageAttribute(element, "name", name, "is empty"), element);
      } else if (name.indexOf('/')!=-1) {
        parse.addProblem(XmlUtil.errorMessageAttribute(element, "name", name, "contains slash (/)"), element);
      }
      activity.setName(name);
    }
  }


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