How to trigger a stuck timer from a process instance running in Process Intelligent Server for JBoss BPM Suite 6.4.x?

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Environment

  • Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite (BPMS) 6.4.x
    • Process Intelligent Server as execution server;

Issue

  • How to trigger a stuck timer from a process instance running in Process Intelligent Server for JBoss BPM Suite 6.4.x?
  • After looking at the tables, it looks like process instance entered the timer node and it's never exited it;

Resolution

It is possible to set a timer as triggered. This way the process instance will continue the execution right after the timer. A sample project can be found attached, however, bear in mind that the attached project is supposed to be only a sample and that we don't provide support for it.

This sample project uses Java 8, so kie-server must run with java 8. It is based on BxMS 6.4.2 (Maven library version: 6.5.0.Final-redhat-7). In order to run it, please apply the following steps:

  1. Build the project with mvn clean package;
  2. Copy the jar from target dir to kie-server.war/WEB-INF/lib;
  3. Start the server and make a request to kie server to start a job that will run the custom command. Provide the processInstanceId and containerid (the container where the process instance is running), for example:

POST on http://localhost:8080/kie-server/services/rest/server/jobs with payload:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<job-request-instance>
    <job-command>example.executor_update_timer.commands.SetTimerAsTriggeredCommand</job-command>
    <scheduled-date>2016-12-19T00:00:00-02:00</scheduled-date>
    <data>
        <entry>
            <key>identifier</key>
            <value xsi:type="xs:string" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">container_123</value>
        </entry>
        <entry>
            <key>processInstanceId</key>
            <value xsi:type="xs:string" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">5</value>
        </entry>
    </data>
</job-request-instance>

You should see the command being executed and the process instance continue its execution after it.

NOTE: The attached project is supposed to be only a sample and that we do NOT provide support for it. We recommend to check the code to build your own project.

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