一、介绍
Flowable是一个用Java语言写的轻量级工作流引擎。官网对于此项目如何使用有非常详细的描述,只是目前还没有对应的中文文档。其官方文档地址如下:
https://www.flowable.com/open-source/docs/bpmn/ch02-GettingStarted
其与Spring Boot进行整合的相关官方文档如下:
https://www.flowable.com/open-source/docs/bpmn/ch05a-Spring-Boot
通常,这样的流程定义是用可视化建模工具建模的,比如Flowable UI。
二、构建应用
第一步:在pom.xml中引入相关的依赖,Spring Boot的版本为2.7.6,flowable的版本为6.3.0
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>2.7.6</version>
<relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
</parent>
<groupId>com.bc</groupId>
<artifactId>demo</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>demo</name>
<description>Demo project for Spring Boot</description>
<properties>
<java.version>1.8</java.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
</dependency>
<!--flowable工作流依赖-->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.flowable</groupId>
<artifactId>flowable-spring-boot-starter</artifactId>
<version>6.3.0</version>
</dependency>
<!--mysql依赖-->
<dependency>
<groupId>mysql</groupId>
<artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
<version>5.1.45</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>cn.hutool</groupId>
<artifactId>hutool-all</artifactId>
<version>5.7.11</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
第二步:创建一个名为“flowable-spring-boot”的数据库,charset设置为utf8,collate设置为utf8_general_ci。
接着在yml文件配置下述内容,这里将flowable的定时job功能暂时关闭,其它的都用默认的:
spring:
datasource:
url: jdbc:mysql://127.0.0.1:3306/flowable-spring-boot?characterEncoding=UTF-8&useSSL=false
driver-class-name: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
username: root
password: root
flowable:
#关闭定时任务JOB
async-executor-activate: false
如果指定的数据库中还未创建过flowable的相关数据表的话,初次运行时flowable会将自动执行flowable中的初始化脚本完成工作流所需要的数据表的建立。
第三步:flowable建议采用业界标准BPMN2.0的XML来描述需要定义的工作流。为了方便测试,这里定义了一个名为 ExpenseProcess.bpmn20.xml 的文件(这个文件一般是在流程建模工具中设计出来的,自己手动去写的话则还是非常麻烦的),文件里面的内容如下:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<definitions xmlns="http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/20100524/MODEL" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:flowable="http://flowable.org/bpmn" xmlns:bpmndi="http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/20100524/DI"
xmlns:omgdc="http://www.omg.org/spec/DD/20100524/DC" xmlns:omgdi="http://www.omg.org/spec/DD/20100524/DI"
typeLanguage="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" expressionLanguage="http://www.w3.org/1999/XPath"
targetNamespace="http://www.flowable.org/processdef">
<process id="Expense" name="ExpenseProcess" isExecutable="true">
<documentation>报销流程</documentation>
<startEvent id="start" name="开始"></startEvent>
<userTask id="fillTask" name="出差报销" flowable:assignee="${taskUser}">
<extensionElements>
<modeler:initiator-can-complete xmlns:modeler="http://flowable.org/modeler">
<![CDATA[false]]></modeler:initiator-can-complete>
</extensionElements>
</userTask>
<exclusiveGateway id="judgeTask"></exclusiveGateway>
<userTask id="directorTak" name="经理审批">
<extensionElements>
<flowable:taskListener event="create"
class="com.bc.demo.handler.ManagerTaskHandler"></flowable:taskListener>
</extensionElements>
</userTask>
<userTask id="bossTask" name="老板审批">
<extensionElements>
<flowable:taskListener event="create"
class="com.bc.demo.handler.BossTaskHandler"></flowable:taskListener>
</extensionElements>
</userTask>
<endEvent id="end" name="结束"></endEvent>
<sequenceFlow id="directorNotPassFlow" name="驳回" sourceRef="directorTak" targetRef="fillTask">
<conditionExpression xsi:type="tFormalExpression"><![CDATA[${outcome=='驳回'}]]></co