public void testTaskAssignment() {
// The process shown below is based on the hello world process.
// The state node is replaced by a task-node. The task-node
// is a node in JPDL that represents a wait state and generates
// task(s) to be completed before the process can continue to
// execute.
ProcessDefinition processDefinition = ProcessDefinition.parseXmlString(
"<process-definition name='the baby process'>" +
" <start-state>" +
" <transition name='baby cries' to='t' />" +
" </start-state>" +
" <task-node name='t'>" +
" <task name='change nappy'>" +
" <assignment" +
" class='org.jbpm.tutorial.taskmgmt.NappyAssignmentHandler' />" +
" </task>" +
" <transition to='end' />" +
" </task-node>" +
" <end-state name='end' />" +
"</process-definition>"
);
// Create an execution of the process definition.
ProcessInstance processInstance =
new ProcessInstance(processDefinition);
Token token = processInstance.getRootToken();
// Let's start the process execution, leaving the start-state
// over its default transition.
token.signal();
// The signal method will block until the process execution
// enters a wait state. In this case, that is the task-node.
assertSame(processDefinition.getNode("t"), token.getNode());
// When execution arrived in the task-node, a task 'change nappy'
// was created and the NappyAssignmentHandler was called to determine
// to whom the task should be assigned. The NappyAssignmentHandler
// returned 'papa'.
// In a real environment, the tasks would be fetched from the
// database with the methods in the org.jbpm.db.TaskMgmtSession.
// Since we don't want to include the persistence complexity in
// this example, we just take the first task-instance of this
// process instance (we know there is only one in this test
// scenario).
TaskInstance taskInstance = (TaskInstance)
processInstance
.getTaskMgmtInstance()
.getTaskInstances()
.iterator().next();
// Now, we check if the taskInstance was actually assigned to 'papa'.
assertEquals("papa", taskInstance.getActorId() );
// Now we suppose that 'papa' has done his duties and mark the task
// as done.
taskInstance.end();
// Since this was the last (only) task to do, the completion of this
// task triggered the continuation of the process instance execution.
assertSame(processDefinition.getNode("end"), token.getNode());
}