Package org.flowable.engine.delegate

Interface FlowableFutureJavaDelegate<Input,Output>

Type Parameters:

Input - the input of the execution

Output - the output of the execution

All Superinterfaces:

FutureJavaDelegate<Output>

All Known Subinterfaces:

MapBasedFlowableFutureJavaDelegate

public interface FlowableFutureJavaDelegate<Input,Output>
extends FutureJavaDelegate<Output>

Convenience class which always uses the AsyncTaskInvoker to execute the async data. Provides intermediate methods to prepare the execution data before executing and do the actual execution without the need to work with futures.

Author:

Filip Hrisafov

See Also:

MapBasedFlowableFutureJavaDelegate, FutureJavaDelegate

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
void	afterExecution(DelegateExecution execution, Output executionData)	Method invoked with the result from execute(Object).
Output	execute(Input inputData)	Perform the actual execution of the delegate in another thread.
default CompletableFuture<Output>	execute(DelegateExecution execution, AsyncTaskInvoker taskInvoker)	Perform the execution of the delegate, potentially on another thread.
Input	prepareExecutionData(DelegateExecution execution)	Method invoked before doing the execution to extract needed that from the execution on the main thread.

Method Detail

execute

default CompletableFuture<Output> execute(DelegateExecution execution,
                                          AsyncTaskInvoker taskInvoker)

Description copied from interface: FutureJavaDelegate

Perform the execution of the delegate, potentially on another thread. The result of the future is passed in the FutureJavaDelegate.afterExecution(DelegateExecution, Object) in order to store the data on the execution on the same thread as the caller of this method. IMPORTANT: the execution should only be used to read data before creating the future. The execution should not be used in the task that will be executed on a new thread.

The AsyncTaskInvoker is in order to schedule an execution on a different thread. However, it is also possible to use a different scheduler, or return a future not created by the given taskInvoker.

Specified by:

execute in interface FutureJavaDelegate<Input>

Parameters:

execution - the execution that can be used to extract data

taskInvoker - the task invoker that can be used to execute expensive operation on another thread

Returns:

the output data of the execution

prepareExecutionData

Input prepareExecutionData(DelegateExecution execution)

Method invoked before doing the execution to extract needed that from the execution on the main thread. This should be used to prepare and extract data from the execution before doing the execution in a different thread.

Parameters:

execution - the execution from which to extract data

Returns:

the data for the delegate

execute

Output execute(Input inputData)

Perform the actual execution of the delegate in another thread. This uses prepareExecutionData(DelegateExecution) to get the needed data from the DelegateExecution and returns the output data that can is passed to afterExecution(DelegateExecution, Object). IMPORTANT: This is a completely new thread which does not participate in the transaction of the process.

Parameters:

inputData - the input data for the execution created via prepareExecutionData(DelegateExecution)

Returns:

the output data of the execution

See Also:

execute(DelegateExecution, AsyncTaskInvoker)

afterExecution

void afterExecution(DelegateExecution execution,
                    Output executionData)

Method invoked with the result from execute(Object). This should be used to set data on the DelegateExecution. This is on the same thread as prepareExecutionData(DelegateExecution) and participates in the process transaction.

Specified by:

afterExecution in interface FutureJavaDelegate<Input>

Parameters:

execution - the execution to which data can be set

executionData - the execution data