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Re: How to Save jBPM 5.1 Process Definition Created via API?
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created by <a href="http://community.jboss.org/people/victor.lewis">Victor Lewis</a> in <i>jBPM</i> - <a href="http://community.jboss.org/message/639861#639861">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Estelle,</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>The exception you show isn't complaining about your cast to a WorkflowProcess but looks to be deeper in the call to dump (although I cannot tell because you cut off the stack trace).  It says you have an instance of org.jbpm.context.def.ContextDefinition that is trying to be cast to org.drools.process.core.Context.  I don't know where the org.jbpm.context.def.ContextDefinition is being created but it probably a part of processDefinition.  The stack trace with the exception should tell you where the cast is being done.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Here is the code I use to get thet XML:</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>protected</b></font> String xmlForProcess(ProcessDefinitionDTO procDef, List<WorkflowNode> nodes, RPCResult result) <font color="navy">{</font>
     RuleFlowProcessFactory factory = processDefinitionService.createProcesFactory(procDef.getIdString());
     factory.version(<font color="red">"1"</font>);
     factory.packageName(<font color="red">"com.stuff.pbm"</font>);
     factory.name(procDef.getName());
 
     addNodesToProcess(nodes, factory);
 
     addLinksToProcess(procDef, factory);
 
     RuleFlowProcess process = factory.getProcess();
     ProcessValidationError[] errors = RuleFlowProcessValidator.getInstance().validateProcess(process);
       
     <font color="navy"><b>for</b></font> (ProcessValidationError e : errors) <font color="navy">{</font>
          result.addMessage(<font color="navy"><b>new</b></font> MessageDTO(MessageCategory.WARNING, e.getMessage()));
     <font color="navy">}</font>
       
     String asXml = XmlBPMNProcessDumper.INSTANCE.dump(process, XmlBPMNProcessDumper.NO_META_DATA);
     <font color="navy"><b>return</b></font> asXml;
<font color="navy">}</font>
</code></pre><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>where </p><pre class="jive-pre"><code class="jive-code jive-java">processDefinitionService.createProcessFactory
</code></pre><p> returns a </p><pre class="jive-pre"><code class="jive-code jive-java">org.jbpm.ruleflow.core.RuleFlowProcessFactory
</code></pre><p>.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>I hope this helps.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>-Victor</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p></div>
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