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    jbpm4.4,how to get property from custom activity in jPDL(xml)
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    created by <a href="http://community.jboss.org/people/meadlai">Mead Lai</a> in <i>jBPM</i> - <a href="http://community.jboss.org/message/624702#624702">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>jbpm4.4,how to get property from custom activity in jPDL(xml)</p><p>================</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>&lt;custom id="Act_2" name="myCustomTask" class="com.meadlai.CustomActivity" point="309,70" memo=""&gt;</p><p>&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;property name="form"&gt;&lt;string value="99801"/&gt;&lt;/property&gt;</p><p>&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;property name="mark"&gt;&lt;string value=""/&gt;&lt;/property&gt;</p><p>&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;property name="<span style="color: #ff0000;">model</span>"&gt;&lt;string value="2"/&gt;&lt;/property&gt;</p><p>&lt;/custom&gt;</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>===============</p><p>I know I can get property "model" in the class:"com.meadlai.CustomActivity" by coding:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>public class CustomActivity{</p><p>private String <span style="color: #ff0000;">model</span>; //getter &amp; setter to get the property</p><p>private String mark;</p><p>...</p><p>execute(){...}</p><p>...</p><p>}</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>===============</p><p>but, I need to get it in another way, just with <span style="color: #ff0000;">taskName</span>.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>EnvironmentImpl environment = ((ProcessEngineImpl) processEngine).openEnvironment();</p><p>&#160;&#160;&#160; try{</p><p>&#160;&#160;&#160; ProcessDefinitionImpl pdf = execution.getProcessDefinition();</p><p>&#160;&#160;&#160; ActivityImpl activity = pdf.getActivity(<span style="color: #ff0000;">taskName</span>);</p><p>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; if ("custom".equals(activity.getType())) {</p><p>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Object <span style="color: #ff0000;">model</span>= activity.getProperty("model");</p><p>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; System.out.println("model = "+ model);</p><p>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; }</p><p>&#160;&#160;&#160; }catch(Exception ex){</p><p>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </p><p>&#160;&#160;&#160; }finally{</p><p>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; environment.close();</p><p>&#160;&#160;&#160; }</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>==============</p><p>sadly, I got "<span style="color: #ff0000;">null</span>" with this manner.</p><p>Could you please give me some clue? I am a newer.</p><p>Thanks very mcuh.</p></div>

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