[jbpm-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Work logged: (JBPM-2936) Creating a subtask throw API should inherit properties from supertask

Creating a subtask throw API should inherit properties from supertask --------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: JBPM-2936 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/browse/JBPM-2936 Project: jBPM Issue Type: Bug Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) Components: Runtime Engine Affects Versions: jBPM 4.4 Reporter: Jimmy Smith Fix For: jBPM 4.x Time Spent: 4 hours Remaining Estimate: 0 minutes When creating a subtask in java code using taskService.newTask(parentTask.id), the executionId and processInstanceId fields are left blank in the database. Seeing that the task interface also does not provide a 'getParentTask' method, it means that there is no way to get the execution or processInstance from within the task without maybe casting it to a TaskImpl, which defies the purpose of using interfaces in the first place. As an example, we have a task with a timer set on a duedate. If the timer fires, a java class is executed that will create a subtask for a supervisor to follow up (why was the original task not completed on time?) while leaving the original task intact and in the same activity (we do not want a state transition to a new activity). As it is now, we cannot do this programming against the interface API, we have to cast objects and that also complicates unit testing. Subtasks by implication should have at least the same processInstance as the parent task, execution is debatable.