Even after customize user and group, IdentityService still create user in act_id_user and group in act_id_group table

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harishashim

This question about doing own custom user and group table is very popular with Activiti. So I am proud the be the first guy in 2016 to ask this question again!

What I have done so far is extend ProcessEngineFactoryBean

public class ProcessEngineFactoryBeanX extends ProcessEngineFactoryBean {

   @Autowired
   UserDao userDao;

   @Autowired
   GroupDao groupDao;

   public ProcessEngineFactoryBeanX() {
      super();
   }

   @Override
   public ProcessEngine getObject() throws Exception {

      ProcessEngine processEngineObject = super.getObject();
      
      Map<Class<?>, SessionFactory> sF =((ProcessEngineConfigurationImpl)             
         processEngineObject.getProcessEngineConfiguration()).getSessionFactories();

      //There should be error thrown here if sF is null

      CustomUserEntityManagerFactory userEntityManagerFactory = new CustomUserEntityManagerFactory(
            userDao);

      CustomGroupEntityManagerFactory groupEntityManagerFactory = new CustomGroupEntityManagerFactory(
            groupDao);
      
      if (!sF.containsKey(CustomUserEntityManager.class)) {
         sF.put(CustomUserEntityManager.class, 
            userEntityManagerFactory);
      }

      if (!sF.containsKey(CustomGroupEntityManager.class)) {
         sF.put(CustomGroupEntityManager.class,
               groupEntityManagerFactory);
      }
      

      return processEngineObject;
   }
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And then inject the above as configuration beans bellow

@Configuration
public class ProcessEngineConfig {
   
   @Autowired
   ProcessEngineConfigurationImpl processEngineConfiguration;

   @Primary
   @Bean
   public ProcessEngineFactoryBean processEngineFactoryBean(){
      ProcessEngineFactoryBean bean = new ProcessEngineFactoryBeanX();
      bean.setProcessEngineConfiguration(processEngineConfiguration);
      return bean;
   }
}
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I am pretty confident that the above works. And my custom manager and factory is now injected

However when I test with bellow code, user and group is still created in  act_id_user and act_id_group table.

   @Bean
   InitializingBean usersAndGroupsInitializer(
         final IdentityService identityService) {

      final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(this.getClass());

      return new InitializingBean() {
         public void afterPropertiesSet() throws Exception {

            Group group = identityService.newGroup("user");
            group.setName("users");
            group.setType("security-role");
            identityService.saveGroup(group);

            User admin = identityService.newUser("rootadmin");
            admin.setPassword("admin");
            identityService.saveUser(admin);

         }
      };
   }
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What should then be my conclusion? Can I conclude that

- my customized identity service using own user and group table is not working?

OR

- whatever my customization, IdentityService will always create user and group in   act_id_user and act_id_group table?

harishashim

Using activiti-engine version 5.19.0.