In Spring Boot applications using the Activiti framework, you can dispatch events and listen for events by leveraging Spring's event handling mechanisms. Here's how you can dispatch and listen for events in Spring Activiti:
1. Dispatching Events:
You can dispatch events using the ActivitiEventDispatcher
provided by Activiti. Typically, you would create an event using ActivitiEventBuilder
and then dispatch it using the ActivitiEventDispatcher
instance.
Example of dispatching an event:
import org.activiti.engine.delegate.event.ActivitiEvent;
import org.activiti.engine.delegate.event.ActivitiEventDispatcher;
import org.activiti.engine.delegate.event.ActivitiEventType;
import org.activiti.engine.delegate.event.impl.ActivitiEventBuilder;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Service;
@Service
public class MyService {
@Autowired
private ActivitiEventDispatcher activitiEventDispatcher;
public void dispatchCustomEvent(Object entity) {
// Create a custom event
ActivitiEvent event = ActivitiEventBuilder.createEntityEvent(ActivitiEventType.CUSTOM, entity);
// Dispatch the event
activitiEventDispatcher.dispatchEvent(event);
}
}
2. Listening for Events:
To listen for events, you can create event listener beans and register them in the Spring context. Event listeners should implement the org.activiti.engine.delegate.event.ActivitiEventListener
interface.
Example of an event listener:
import org.activiti.engine.delegate.event.ActivitiEvent;
import org.activiti.engine.delegate.event.ActivitiEventType;
import org.activiti.engine.delegate.event.ActivitiEventListener;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;
@Component
public class MyEventListener implements ActivitiEventListener {
@Override
public void onEvent(ActivitiEvent event) {
// Handle the event
if (event.getType() == ActivitiEventType.CUSTOM) {
// Custom event handling logic
System.out.println("Custom event received: " + event.getType());
}
}
@Override
public boolean isFailOnException() {
return false;
}
}
3. Registering Event Listeners:
You can register event listener beans in the Spring context using either XML-based configuration or Java-based configuration (@ComponentScan
, @Bean
annotations, etc.).
Example of registering event listeners using Java-based configuration:
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.context.event.EventListener;
@Configuration
public class EventListenerConfig {
@Autowired
private MyEventListener myEventListener;
@Autowired
private MyService myService;
@EventListener
public void handleCustomEvent(Object entity) {
// Dispatch custom event
myService.dispatchCustomEvent(entity);
}
}
In this example, the MyEventListener
bean listens for custom events, and the handleCustomEvent
method dispatches a custom event using the MyService
bean.
With these components in place, you can dispatch custom events in your application and have event listeners respond to them accordingly.