Class: OpenWFE::SaveWorkItemExpression

Inherits:
FlowExpression show all
Defined in:
lib/openwfe/expressions/fe_save.rb

Overview

Saves a copy of the current workitem to a variable or saves the attributes of the current workitem into a field (of that current workitem).

save :to_variable => "/wix"
    #
    # saves a copy of the current workitem to the process
    # level variable "wix"

save :to_field => "old_version"
    #
    # saves a copy of the current workitem attributes in the
    # field 'old_version' of that current workitem.

‘save’ is often used in conjuntion with ‘restore’ (RestoreWorkItemExpression).

Instance Attribute Summary

Attributes inherited from FlowExpression

#apply_time, #attributes, #children, #environment_id, #fei, #parent_id, #raw_representation

Attributes included from Contextual

#application_context

Instance Method Summary collapse

Methods inherited from FlowExpression

#cancel, #clean_children, #delete_variable, #dup_environment, #fetch_environment, #fetch_text_content, #get_binding, #get_environment, #get_parent, #get_root_environment, #has_attribute, #initialize, is_definition, is_definition?, #lookup_attribute, #lookup_attributes, #lookup_boolean_attribute, #lookup_comma_list_attribute, #lookup_downcase_attribute, #lookup_ref, #lookup_string_attribute, #lookup_sym_attribute, #lookup_value, #lookup_variable, #lookup_vf_attribute, names, #new_environment, new_exp, #owns_its_environment?, #paused?, #remove_child, #reply, #reply_to_parent, #set_variable, #store_itself, #synchronize, #to_s, #to_yaml_properties

Methods included from Contextual

#get_work_directory, #init_service, #lookup

Methods included from Logging

#ldebug, #ldebug_callstack, #lerror, #lfatal, #linfo, #llog, #lunknown, #lwarn

Methods included from OwfeServiceLocator

#get_engine, #get_error_journal, #get_expool, #get_expression_map, #get_expression_pool, #get_expression_storage, #get_expression_storages, #get_journal, #get_participant_map, #get_scheduler, #get_wfid_generator

Methods inherited from ObjectWithMeta

#class_def, meta_def, meta_eval, metaclass

Constructor Details

This class inherits a constructor from OpenWFE::FlowExpression

Instance Method Details

#apply(workitem) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/openwfe/expressions/fe_save.rb', line 72

def apply (workitem)

    field = lookup_string_attribute :to_field, workitem
    variable = lookup_string_attribute :to_variable, workitem

    wi = workitem.dup

    if field

        workitem.set_attribute field, wi.attributes

    elsif variable

        set_variable variable, wi
    end

    # else, simply don't save

    reply_to_parent workitem
end