Re: big OSWF update

Hani,

Thanks a lot for spending your time on the auto action feature!!! From 
your description of the feature I don't think you missed something.
I will look at the test cases provided and then try to use the workflow 
definitions of the project im working on.
I'll keep you posted about the progress but it might take some days.

Axel


Hani Suleiman wrote:

> I've fixed/modified the exception handling in oswf to be a lot more 
> useful/helpful. All exceptions are now checked, which means that any 
> code calling oswf needs to catch them. This is the only thing that 
> client code has to modify. The advantage is that you now get a lot 
> more information about what actually went wrong, whether it's a store 
> problem (StoreException), a factory problem (FactoryException), or 
> something else (WorkflowException).
>
> Also implemented is the auto action functionality. I think I''m 
> missing something because this turned out to be simpler than I thought.
>
> Basically an action can now have an optional 'auto' attribute, which 
> can be true or false. If true, then when the workflow moves to its 
> step, the auto actions are checked, the first one that matches is auto 
> executed, and so on until we get to a state where no auto actions 
> apply. I've added 4 test cases that illustrate how this works.
>
> Please be aware that I do not need this functionality myself, so I 
> don't know if I'm testing the use cases you guys are trying to 
> implement. I'd be hugely grateful if people can write simple example 
> auto action descriptors that aren't covered by the existing cases, so 
> we can add them to the test suite, even better would be descriptors 
> which show errors with the current implementation!
>
> I'm sure there are some problem since so much code has changed, so 
> please be patient and I promise it'll all be ironed out very quickly, 
> assuming of course people who run into bugs report them promptly ;)
>
> Existing projects shouldn't have any problems, I've tested this with 
> JIRA's sourcecode as well as our own portal app which uses osworkflow 
> quite a bit.
>
>
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