用来定义子流程,当主流程遇到ProcessState就会停滞并生成子流程运行,子流程运行完毕重新回到主流程运行。主子流程的部署有点特殊(耗费了我3个小时才搞定,我开始认为只要在processdefinition.xml中定义好2个流程的关系,然后分别发布就好了,但是不行,一定要程序设置好两者的关系再发布)
主流程xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<process-definition xmlns="" name="yytest">
<start-state name='yyteststart' >
<transition name='done' to="initial_subyytest" />
</start-state>
<process-state name="initial_subyytest">
<sub-process name="subyytest" />
<!-- variable name="a" access="read,write" mapped-name="aa" /-->
<!-- variable name="b" access="read" mapped-name="bb" /-->
<transition name='done' to="yytestend" />
</process-state>
<end-state name="yytestend" />
</process-definition>
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子流程xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<process-definition
xmlns="" name="subyytest">
<start-state name="subyyteststart">
<transition name="" to="subyyteststate1"></transition>
</start-state>
<state name="subyyteststate1">
<transition name="" to="subyytestend"></transition>
</state>
<end-state name="subyytestend"></end-state>
</process-definition>
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部署以及过程生成:
private static void Deploying_processstate(){
JbpmContext jbpmContext = jbpmConfiguration.createJbpmContext();
try {
InputStream is = new FileInputStream("processes/yytest/processdefinition.xml");
processDefinition = ProcessDefinition.parseXmlInputStream(is);
InputStream subis = new FileInputStream("processes/subyytest/processdefinition.xml");
ProcessDefinition subprocessDefinition = ProcessDefinition.parseXmlInputStream(subis);
//建立关联关系
ProcessState processState = (ProcessState) processDefinition.getNode("initial_subyytest");
processState.setSubProcessDefinition(subprocessDefinition);
//一定要先部署子流程,不然hibernate会报错。
jbpmContext.deployProcessDefinition(subprocessDefinition);
jbpmContext.deployProcessDefinition(processDefinition);
} catch(FileNotFoundException e){
e.printStackTrace();
}finally {
jbpmContext.close();
}
}
private static void Starting_process(){
JbpmContext jbpmContext = jbpmConfiguration.createJbpmContext();
try {
String processName="yytest";
processInstance =jbpmContext.newProcessInstance(processName);//只生成主流程就好了
}finally {
jbpmContext.close();
}
}
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private static void run(){
JbpmContext jbpmContext = jbpmConfiguration.createJbpmContext();
try {
long processInstanceId =1;
processInstance = jbpmContext.loadProcessInstance(processInstanceId);
Token token = processInstance.getRootToken();
System.out.println(token.getNode());
token.signal();
ProcessInstance subprocessInstance=token.getSubProcessInstance();
Token subtoken = subprocessInstance.getRootToken();
System.out.println(token.getNode());
System.out.println(subtoken.getNode());
subtoken.signal();
System.out.println(subtoken.getNode());
System.out.println(token.getNode());
jbpmContext.save(processInstance);
}finally {
jbpmContext.close();
}
}
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运行结果:
StartState(yyteststart)
ProcessState(initial_subyytest)
State(subyyteststate1)
EndState(subyytestend)
EndState(yytestend)
补充:
自循环的流程:
<process-definition name="recursive process">
<start-state>
<transition to="first wait"/>
</start-state>
<state name="first wait">
<transition to="subprocessnode"/>
<transition name="done" to="end"/>
</state>
<process-state name="subprocessnode">
<sub-process name="recursive process"/>
<transition to="end"/>
</process-state>
<end-state name="end"/>
</process-definition>
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关联指定version的子流程
<process-definition>
<process-state name="the sub process state">
<sub-process name="the ultimate subprocess" version="1"/>
</process-state>
</process-definition>
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做过jbpm子流程的人大概都发现这个问题:定义了一个父子流程,如果修改了子流程.父子流程都要重新部署一下,这样父流程在调用子流程时才能调有新的子流程.如果我流程是3级或者4级的我要更新的流程就更多了.而其实这些父流程是没有改变的.
查了一下jbpm的表发现这个关联是保存在JBPM_NODE这个表的SUBPROCESSDEFINITION_字段里,这个字段保存了子流程模板的id,其实当前这条记录保存就是父流程调用该子流程的子流程节点.在你更新子流程时是不会更新父流程这个字段的.
第一种方法就是你自己上传完子流程后修改这个字段的值就可以了.(具体操作就不在描述了就是一个操作顺序问题).
这样是不是很麻烦,如果你够狠那就第二种方法吧.
修改jbpm的源代码org.jbpm.graph.node包下ProcessState类
的public void execute(ExecutionContext executionContext)方法.
该方法第二行代码
ProcessInstance subProcessInstance
= superProcessToken.createSubProcessInstance(subProcessDefinition);
这行代码实际是用JBPM_NODE表里保留的子流程模板id获得的一个子流程
我们改一下,在之前插入一行新代码
subProcessDefinition=
executionContext.getJbpmContext().getGraphSession().findLatestProcessDefinition(subProcessDefinition.getName());
根据子流程模板的名称取最新的子流程模板(流程模板的名称是不会改变的)