[jboss-user] [JBoss jBPM] - Re: Help getting all tasks for a user

[bsmithjj]

Ed,

anonymous wrote : Were you looking for a single call that combined these two lists? 

Yes - After scanning the documentation (no luck on this subject), and trying the various getTask*() method calls via several lengthy deployments, and then searching these forums, I finally figured out that I need to make the several calls.  It also took me ... oh 2-3 hours to do what I 'feel' should have taken 20-30 minutes with decent docs and or API methods.

Obviously, I was a bit frustrated - mainly because I think findPooledTaskInstances

JbpmContext.getTaskMgmtSession.findPooledTaskInstances( .. ) 

is misleadingly named - here's the javadocs:


  | findPooledTaskInstances
  | 
  | public java.util.List findPooledTaskInstances(java.lang.String actorId)
  | 
  |     get the taskinstances for which the given actor is in the pool.
  | 
  | 

This documentation says nothing about requiring the actorId on a task to be null in order for the query to return results.  I think it would be more aptly named:

findPooledTaskInstancesForTasksHavingActorIdEqualToNull()

- this is where my 'obscure' comment is coming from.  In order for that call to work, when I add pooled actors to a task, I have to know to set the actorId on the task to null - figured out once I looked at the HQL query in the jBPM source code.

Anyway - I think jBPM is a great software component - It has a lot of promise for implementing workflow-type systems - I also think the documentation is horrible - in contrast, the Seam documentation (which led us to using jBPM on my current project) is great.

Thanks

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