Deserialize Java Object Process Variable

[Rene Bormann]

Hi,

is there a way to deserialize a process variable that is a java object. Is it further more possible to change values of the object and store the changed object back as variable to the process?

Thanks in advance for any help,

Rene

[Daniel Meyer]

Hi Rene,

this is possible with the following restriction:

the Class of the variable must be known to cockpit (must be visible in the cockpit / camunda-webapp classpath).

Out of the box, this is true for things like List<String> but not for things like org.my.project.MyType.

Cheers,

Daniel

[Bernd Rücker]

Hi Daniel.

I asked myself why we don't do a context switch when deserializing the object to JSON for the REST API? Then it would work in tasklist/cockpit out-of-the-box for classes contained in the process application. Or am I wrong?

Or was this part of your ideas around "Text-based serialization (XML) for java object process variables" (http://camunda.org/community/roadmap.html)? 

Thanks and Cheers

Bernd

[Daniel Meyer]

Hi Bernd,

"I asked myself why we don't do a context switch when deserializing the object to JSON for the REST API?"

we decided against that. More information can be found here:

https://app.camunda.com/jira/browse/CAM-857?focusedCommentId=34332&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-34332

Cheers,

Daniel