Deploy task owner is SYSTEM?

G'day,

Working with a WF instantiated via iwmodelc from Java. Very basic WF... external task gets file attached from Java class, transitions over to submit task.

From there, it goes to a deploy task (fan out to two nodes) and then to an email URLTask to notify current user its done.

For some reason, the ownership seems to change (i believe at the deploy task) and SYSTEM becomes the task owner when i get to the email URLTask.

Using the OOTB EmailTask spring bean... throwing an error, no recipients since none specified for SYSTEM.

Not sure why my owner is getting switched to SYSTEM and not to current TS user.

Any ideas?

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Rick Poulin

Something custom somewhere has to be switching that ownership. There's nothing OOTB that would be causing this.

sgouin

Ok...still digging.

I decided to output the job spec within my Java class to see what exactly the spec looks like when instantiated via iwmodelc.

Job spec xml reveals all tasks in my WF, incl. WF owner... set to SYSTEM.

I was attempting in code to set WF owner, and task owner of current active task (external task) to current user (client.getCurrentUser())... but seems that isn't taking effect...

So iwmodelc seems to be the culprit at this point.... not sure at this point how to get past this....

Rick Poulin

Well if you run iwmodelc as SYSTEM, then $IW_USER will resolve to system (running it from Java doesn't mean the user session carries over to the process fork). But if that piece then sets the ownership via the CSSDK, it should work or throw an exception as to why it didn't.

Maybe post that part of your code?

sgouin

p = new ProcessBuilder("D:\\Interwoven\\TeamSite\\bin\\iwmodelc.bat", "-i", "File Auto Submit", "<vpath to file>").start();

BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(p.getInputStream()));

			String line = "";			
			while ((line = reader.readLine())!= null) {
				if (LOGGER.isDebugEnabled())
					LOGGER.debug("iwmodelc output: " + line);
				if (line.matches("\\d+"))
					jobID = line;

				BufferedReader errors = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(p.getErrorStream()));

while ((line = errors.readLine()) != null)
				LOGGER.error(line);
			err = true;
}
		CSWorkflowEngine wfeng = client.getWorkflowEngine();
		CSWorkflow wf = wfeng.getWorkflow(Integer.parseInt(jobID));

		wf.setOwner(client.getCurrentUser());

		if (LOGGER.isDebugEnabled()) {
			 LOGGER.debug("JobID returned from iwmodelc is: " + jobID);
			 LOGGER.debug("Attaching file...");
			 LOGGER.debug("Current WF owner: " + wf.getOwner().getName());
		 }

		 CSTask[] tasks = wf.getTasks();
		 CSPathStatus[] status = null;

		 for(int i=0; i < tasks.length; i++) {

			 if (tasks[i].getName().equalsIgnoreCase("dummy") && tasks[i].isActive()) {
				 CSAreaRelativePath[] csFiles = { new CSAreaRelativePath(tasks[i].getVariable("fileToSubmit"))}; 
				 status = tasks[i].attachFiles(csFiles);
				 tasks[i].setOwner(client.getCurrentUser());
				 for (int j=0; j < status.length; j++) {
					 if (LOGGER.isDebugEnabled())
							 LOGGER.debug("Status of attaching file " + csFiles[j].getName() + ": " + status[j].getStatusMessage());
					 if (!(status[j].getPrimaryStatusCode() == CSPathStatus.SUCCESS))
						 LOGGER.error("Attaching file failed! " + status[j].getSecondaryStatusCode() + ": " + status[j].getStatusMessage());
				 }
				 ((CSTransitionableTask) tasks[i]).chooseTransition("Submit", null);

				 if (LOGGER.isDebugEnabled())
					 LOGGER.debug("Task owner: " + tasks[i].getOwner().getName());

			 }
		 }

so the above is in a servlet method, which is invoked from a custom JSP in CCPro via an ajax call....

It works, in that the job instantiates, file gets attached submitted and deployed..but when it gets to the email task..it fails since its still seeing it as user SYSTEM, which has no configured email.. when it should be the currently logged in user.

Thanks

sgouin

FYI.... logging some debug info.. i get WF owner before resetting the ownership of the WF, and owner is SYSTEM.

After running the wf.setOwner(client.getCurrentUser())... it outputs as my correct TS user.

So it seems in this case, even though I set the WF owner, it doesnt cascade this down to the tasks in the WF.

The task ownership is set at instantiation via the iwmodelc call and all tasks in the WF are set to SYSTEM.

Overriding the WF owner and current active dummy external task doesnt seem to make any difference.

Seems i can't modify an inactive task either...got an exception if i recall, but i will try again.

Rick Poulin

sgouin wrote:
So it seems in this case, even though I set the WF owner, it doesnt cascade this down to the tasks in the WF.

Seems i can't modify an inactive task either...got an exception if i recall, but i will try again.

Yeah, I was going to say, you're not setting ownership on any but the 'dummy' task in this code. The ownership of the job is not tied to the ownership of any particular task. You should be able to modify some properties of inactive tasks (ownership being one of them, but you wouldn't be able to attach files for example).

sgouin

ok.. so setting owners on inactive tasks does work.

Unfortunately, when it reaches the email task and attempts at retrieving the user email, it still sees it as SYSTEM!

I debug output the owner on my email task and it is correctly set to my TS user...

2015-02-17 10:42:21,631 [http-0.0.0.0-8080-17] WARN com.interwoven.livesite.workflow.task.EmailTask () - buildRecipientList: no email address found for user: SYSTEM, user will not receive the email.

I am using the same email URL task as configured in the PLC workflow...

sgouin

I know where my problem is.

Looking at the job spec again... i see this:

Setting the task owner to TS user doesnt matter, since the task variable was already preset to SYSTEM at job instantiation when called via iwmodelc!

;-)

so the fix here is to set this variable somehow to my TS user... what i dont know yet is whether i can do this when the task is inactive... since my java class hooks into my dummy task at the beginning of the WF.

Trying this now....

sgouin

That was the issue!

I modified the email task and set the Recipients to a configurable value, and from my java class, i set this value to the current TS user email address.

Email sent.

Thanks for your help!