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Declare a Map of Maps within the JDPL
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created by <a href="http://community.jboss.org/people/shannonsumner">Shannon Sumner</a> in <i>jBPM</i> - <a href="http://community.jboss.org/message/562492#562492">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Hello all,</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>To pick up from another thread - I'm creating a process variable with the same name as a task.  I'm assigning this variable a map containing name value pairs for any task relating information I can think of.  I'm working on creating custom nodes to accomplish this - but in the mean time can someone help me find a better way of doing what I'm doing now?</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>I'm my jdpl I declare a variable in the following fashion:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><pre class="jive-pre"><code class="jive-code jive-java"><variable name=<font color="red">"Preparing For Your Oil Change"</font> type=<font color="red">"serializable"</font>>
        <object class=<font color="red">"com.xxxx.pma.entity.VariableEntity"</font>>
            <property name=<font color="red">"mapVariables"</font>>
                <map>
                    <entry>
                        <key>
                            <string value=<font color="red">"documentation"</font>/>
                        </key>
                        <value>
                            <string value=<font color="red">"http://oilchg.xxxx.com/oilchg-intro.html"</font>/>
                        </value>
                    </entry>
                </map>
            </property>
        </object>
    </variable>
</code></pre><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>The class I call to populate this variable looks like this:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><pre class="jive-pre"><code class="jive-code jive-java"><font color="navy"><b>package</b></font> com.xxxx.pma.entity;
 
<font color="navy"><b>import</b></font> java.io.Serializable;
<font color="navy"><b>import</b></font> java.util.HashMap;
<font color="navy"><b>import</b></font> java.util.Map;
 
<font color="navy"><b>public</b></font> <font color="navy"><b>class</b></font> VariableEntity <font color="navy"><b>implements</b></font> Serializable
<font color="navy">{</font>
    <font color="navy"><b>private</b></font> <font color="navy"><b>static</b></font> <font color="navy"><b>final</b></font> <font color="navy"><b>long</b></font> serialVersionUID = 1L;
    <font color="navy"><b>public</b></font> Map<String, String> mapVariables = <font color="navy"><b>new</b></font> HashMap<String, String>();
 
    <font color="navy"><b>public</b></font> Map<String, String> getMapVariables()
    <font color="navy">{</font>
        <font color="navy"><b>return</b></font> mapVariables;
    <font color="navy">}</font>
 
    <font color="navy"><b>public</b></font> <font color="navy"><b>void</b></font> setMapVariables(Map<String, String> mapVariables)
    <font color="navy">{</font>
        this.mapVariables = mapVariables;
    <font color="navy">}</font>
 
<font color="navy">}</font>
</code></pre><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Is there any way to declare a Map without going through the extra step of calling a helper class?  Please let me know.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Thanks,</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Shannon</p></div>
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