#-- # Copyright (c) 2005-2011, John Mettraux, jmettraux@gmail.com # # Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy # of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal # in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights # to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell # copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is # furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: # # The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in # all copies or substantial portions of the Software. # # THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR # IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, # FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE # AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER # LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, # OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN # THE SOFTWARE. # # Made in Japan. #++ module Ruote # # The core methods for the Receiver class (sometimes a Mixin is easier # to integrate). # # (The engine itself includes this mixin, the LocalParticipant module # includes it as well). # module ReceiverMixin # This method pipes back a workitem into the engine, letting it resume # in its flow, hopefully. # def receive(workitem) workitem = workitem.to_h if workitem.respond_to?(:to_h) @context.storage.put_msg( 'receive', 'fei' => workitem['fei'], 'workitem' => workitem, 'participant_name' => workitem['participant_name'], 'receiver' => sign) end # Given a process definitions and optional initial fields and variables, # launches a new process instance. # # This method is mostly used from the Ruote::Engine class (which includes # this mixin). # # process_definition must be a result of Ruote.process_definition call # or XML or JSON serialized process definition, as accepted by # Ruote::Reader#read. # # fields are workflow parameters that will be placed in workitem.fields. # # variables contain engine variables. # def launch(process_definition, fields={}, variables={}) wfid = @context.wfidgen.generate @context.storage.put_msg( 'launch', 'wfid' => wfid, 'tree' => @context.reader.read(process_definition), 'workitem' => { 'fields' => fields }, 'variables' => variables) wfid end # Wraps a call to receive(workitem) # # Not aliasing so that if someone changes the receive implementation, # reply is affected as well. # def reply(workitem) receive(workitem) end # Wraps a call to receive(workitem) # # Not aliasing so that if someone changes the receive implementation, # reply_to_engine is affected as well. # def reply_to_engine(workitem) receive(workitem) end # A receiver signs a workitem when it comes back. # # Not used much as of now. # def sign self.class.to_s end # Convenience method, given a workitem or a fei, returns the # corresponding flow expession. # def fetch_flow_expression(workitem_or_fei) Ruote::Exp::FlowExpression.fetch( @context, Ruote::FlowExpressionId.extract_h(workitem_or_fei)) end # For example : # # fexp = engine.fexp(fei) # # or # fexp = engine.fexp(workitem) # alias fexp fetch_flow_expression # A convenience methods for advanced users (like Oleg). # # Given a fei (flow expression id), fetches the workitem as stored in # the expression with that fei. # This is the "applied workitem", if the workitem is currently handed to # a participant, this method will return the workitem as applied, not # the workitem as saved by the participant/user in whatever worklist it # uses. If you need that workitem, do the vanilla thing and ask it to # the [storage] participant or its worklist. # # The fei might be a string fei (result of fei.to_storage_id), a # FlowExpressionId instance or a hash. # # on_terminate processes are not triggered for on_error processes. # on_error processes are triggered for on_terminate processes as well. # def applied_workitem(fei) Ruote::Workitem.new(fexp(fei).h.applied_workitem) end alias workitem applied_workitem protected # Stashes values in the participant expression (in the storage). # # put(workitem.fei, 'key' => 'value', 'colour' => 'blue') # # Remember that keys/values must be serializable in JSON. # # put & get are useful for a participant that needs to communicate # between its consume and its cancel. # # See the thread at # http://groups.google.com/group/openwferu-users/t/2e6a95708c10847b for the # justification. # def put(fei, hash) fexp = Ruote::Exp::FlowExpression.fetch(@context, fei.to_h) (fexp.h['stash'] ||= {}).merge!(hash) fexp.persist_or_raise end # Fetches back a stashed value. # # get(fei, 'colour') # # => 'blue' # # To return the whole stash # # get(fei) # # => { 'colour' => 'blue' } # # put & get are useful for a participant that needs to communicate # between its consume and its cancel. # def get(fei, key=nil) fexp = Ruote::Exp::FlowExpression.fetch(@context, fei.to_h) stash = fexp.h['stash'] rescue {} key ? stash[key] : stash end end # # A receiver is meant to receive workitems and feed them back into the # engine (the storage actually). # class Receiver include ReceiverMixin # Accepts context, worker, engine or storage as first argument. # def initialize(cwes, options={}) @context = cwes.context @options = options end end end