How to signal an error event

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checco

Hi folks,
Is there a way to signal an error event from a JavaDelegate?

I have a serviceTask with a ErrorBoundaryEvent attached but i don't know how to follow the error path instead of the default path.

After googling and searching in alfresco/activiti forum i have found this exception http://activiti.org/javadocs/index.html?org/activiti/engine/delegate/BpmnError.html  but it seems that it is introduced in activiti 5.9 and unfortunately alfresco 4.0.1 uses activiti 5.7.

Shuld i  use the WorkflowService.fireEvent(String pathId,String eventName) method?  in this case which eventName and pathId i have to use?

checco

Hi myself  ,
looking at the examples provided with Activiti 5.7 i have found the JavaServiceTaskTest.testExceptionHandling.bpmn20.xml in which the error is handled via API and not via BPMN2.0.

Infact the process definition is quite simple:

<process id="exceptionHandling">
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <startEvent id="theStart" />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <sequenceFlow id="flow1" sourceRef="theStart" targetRef="javaService" />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <serviceTask id="javaService" 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; name="Java service invocation" 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; activiti:class="org.activiti.examples.bpmn.servicetask.ThrowsExceptionBehavior">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </serviceTask>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <sequenceFlow id="no-exception" sourceRef="javaService" targetRef="theEnd" />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <sequenceFlow id="exception" sourceRef="javaService" targetRef="fixException" />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <userTask id="fixException" name="Fix Exception" />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <sequenceFlow id="flow4" sourceRef="fixException" targetRef="theEnd" />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <endEvent id="theEnd" />
&nbsp; </process>
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And the trick is done inside the ThrowsExceptionBehavior:

public class ThrowsExceptionBehavior implements ActivityBehavior {

  public void execute(ActivityExecution execution) throws Exception {
    String var = (String) execution.getVariable("var");
    PvmTransition transition = null;
    try {
      executeLogic(var);
      transition = execution.getActivity().findOutgoingTransition("no-exception");
    } catch (Exception e) {
      transition = execution.getActivity().findOutgoingTransition("exception");
    }
    execution.take(transition);
  }
  
  protected void executeLogic(String value) {
    if (value.equals("throw-exception")) {
      throw new RuntimeException();
    }
  }
}
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But in this way i can't put an ErrorBoundaryEvent to serviceTask because the method findOutgoingTransition look for transition directly attached to the serviceTask and not for transition attached to BoundaryEvent of serviceTask.

So my question is: it is possible to use BoundaryErrorEvent attached to a task? and how can I signal the error to the process instance?

Thanks