Method: OpenWFE::Extras::Workitem.from_owfe_workitem

Defined in:

lib/openwfe/extras/participants/activeparticipants.rb

.from_owfe_workitem(wi, store_name = nil) ⇒ Object

Generates a (new) Workitem from an OpenWFEru InFlowWorkItem instance.

This is a ‘static’ method :

awi = OpenWFE::Extras::Workitem.from_owfe_workitem(wi)

(This method saves the ‘ActiveWorkitem’).

# File 'lib/openwfe/extras/participants/activeparticipants.rb', line 177

def Workitem.from_owfe_workitem (wi, store_name=nil)

    i = nil

    #MUTEX.synchronize do

    i = Workitem.new
    i.fei = wi.fei.to_s
    i.wfid = wi.fei.wfid
    i.wf_name = wi.fei.workflow_definition_name
    i.wf_revision = wi.fei.workflow_definition_revision
    i.participant_name = wi.participant_name
    i.dispatch_time = wi.dispatch_time
    i.last_modified = nil

    i.store_name = store_name

    i.save!
      # save workitem before adding any field
      # making sure it has an id...


    # This is a field set by the active participant immediately
    # before calling this method.
    # the default behavior is "use field method"

    if wi.attributes["compact_workitems"]

        wi.attributes.delete("compact_workitems")
        i.yattributes = wi.attributes

    else

        i.yattributes = nil

        wi.attributes.each do |k, v|
            i.fields << Field.new_field(k, v)
        end
    end

    i.save!
        # making sure to throw an exception in case of trouble
        #
        # damn, insert then update :(

    #end

    i
end