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Re: How can I get a itemDefinition related to a process variable?
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created by <a href="http://community.jboss.org/people/francesco.pietrobelli">Francesco Pietrobelli</a> in <i>jBPM</i> - <a href="http://community.jboss.org/message/625564#625564">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>The only solution i found is parsing the bpmn file in which the process is defined in follwiong way: </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><pre class="jive-pre"><code class="jive-code jive-java">org.jbpm.workflow.instance.WorkflowProcessInstance currentProcess=(org.jbpm.workflow.instance.WorkflowProcessInstance)ksession.getProcess(processInstanceId);
DocumentBuilderFactory documentBuilderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
documentBuilderFactory.setNamespaceAware(<font color="navy"><b>true</b></font>);
DocumentBuilder documentBuilder = documentBuilderFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
Document doc = documentBuilder.parse(((org.jbpm.process.core.Process) currentProcess.getProcess()).getResource().getInputStream());
 
 
XPathFactory xFactory = XPathFactory.newInstance();
XPath xPath = xFactory.newXPath();
xPath.setNamespaceContext(<font color="navy"><b>new</b></font> BPMN2Namespaces());
 
Map<String, String> outMap = currentNode.getHumanTaskNode().getOutMappings();
<font color="navy"><b>for</b></font> (String outParameter : outMap.keySet()) <font color="navy">{</font>
     XPathExpression xExpr1 = xPath.compile(<font color="red">"//bpmn2:definitions/bpmn2:process/bpmn2:property[@id='"</font>
                                + outMap.get(outParameter)
                                + <font color="red">"']/@itemSubjectRef"</font>);
     String itemSubjectRef = xExpr1.evaluate(doc);
     XPathExpression xExpr2 = xPath.compile(<font color="red">"//bpmn2:definitions/bpmn2:itemDefinition[@id='"</font>
                                + itemSubjectRef + <font color="red">"']/@structureRef"</font>);
     String structureRef = xExpr2.evaluate(doc);
 
     System.out.println(<font color="red">"Type of out parameter named '"</font>+outParameter+<font color="red">"': "</font>+structureRef);
<font color="navy">}</font>
</code></pre><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>But if same one know a way to do that without parsing bpmn file is very <span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps">appreciated....</span></span></p><p><span class="short_text" lang="en"><span class="hps">Regards,</span></span></p><p><span class="short_text" lang="en"><span class="hps">Francesco<br/></span></span></p></div>
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