[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] Closed: (JBRULES-2608) Variable Persistence Overwrites NULL Values over Persisted Values

Variable Persistence Overwrites NULL Values over Persisted Values ----------------------------------------------------------------- Key: JBRULES-2608 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/browse/JBRULES-2608 Project: Drools Issue Type: Bug Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) Components: All Affects Versions: 5.1.0.FINAL Environment: N/A Reporter: Anatoly Polinsky Assignee: Mauricio Salatino Fix For: 5.1.0.FINAL Attachments: difference-between-first-and-second-work-item.png, drools-vp-jira.zip, passing-list-process-test.png, passing-list-process.png Original Estimate: 4 hours Remaining Estimate: 4 hours Drools Flow ========= For non-String variables (Serializ..ble, Entities, etc..), Drools overwrites NULLs when a (JPA) process is resumed ( a workitem is completed ). 1. Here is a use case: a List ( ArrayList ) is passed to the process in start as a parameter 2. First work item sees ( maps in ) the List, and can work with it inside the work item handler 3. First work item does not complete: process goes to sleep. 4. When the session is reloaded, the first work item is completed 5. All the persisted variables ( including the "list" ) are restored 6. Second work item is taking in the list ( it maps in ) 7. However at this point it is NULL It seems that when the context is closed, after resolving variables, the following (WorkItemNodeInstance): VariableScopeInstance variableScopeInstance = ( VariableScopeInstance ) resolveContextInstance( VariableScope.VARIABLE_SCOPE, mapping.getValue() ); does no longer have the restored variables, and rather NULLs, since internally variables are compared with a "result map" that was passed to the previous work item. This means that persisted variables are restored internally, but then overwritten internally by NULLs. /Anatoly