Setting a thread factory for async tasks

Question

My use case is this: I'm using the async executor. I have some async service tasks and I want to set the thread names for the threads that will be executing these tasks. I guess the same applies for script tasks - I want the thread that executes them to have a specific name. How can I achieve these things?

gdharley · Accepted Answer

This would require that you overload the Job Executor service classes.

You can find the necessary classes under here:
Activiti/modules/activiti-engine/src/main/java/org/activiti/engine/impl/asyncexecutor at master · Activiti/Activiti · Gi… 
Specifically you should look in AbstractAsyncJobExecutor.java

As for script tasks, it may be difficult to name the thread as sometimes the thread will be a servlet thread, sometimes it will be inherited from a previous job (sync continuation) and sometimes it will be picked up from the Job executor (async continuation).

Cheers,

Greg

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