setCurrentTask and getCurrentTask

Are there methods (setCurrentTask and getCurrentTask) predefined or OOTB. If so can anyone point me to the right class for these methods.

Should I be writing these classes with these default constructors?

Is it true, if we are using OD services for deployment, we cannot use the regular iwodstart cmd for any other deployments.

Are there any classes for datadeploy, basically for querying, I mean we can easily set up jdbc for querying and fetching, was wondering any API from OOTB teamsite to do the same?

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Rick Poulin

Are there methods (setCurrentTask and getCurrentTask) predefined or OOTB. If so can anyone point me to the right class for these methods.
Er.. are you asking about workflow tasks, or OD steps in a deployment instance?

Should I be writing these classes with these default constructors?
What classes? What's the execution context?

Are there any classes for datadeploy, basically for querying, I mean we can easily set up jdbc for querying and fetching, was wondering any API from OOTB teamsite to do the same?
DataDeploy only does content updates, not content reads. You can't use it to query a database for purposes like reporting. You'd need to set up your own JDBC connection for such things, ideally supported by an ORM framework.

Bhargav Coca

Are there methods (setCurrentTask and getCurrentTask) predefined or OOTB. If so can anyone point me to the right class for these methods.
Er.. are you asking about workflow tasks, or OD steps in a deployment instance?

[font color="blue"]In either case are these predefined in any jar? I didn't find them..[/font]

Should I be writing these classes with these default constructors?
What classes? What's the execution context?

[font color="blue"]I was referring to setCurrentTask.[/font]

Are there any classes for datadeploy, basically for querying, I mean we can easily set up jdbc for querying and fetching, was wondering any API from OOTB teamsite to do the same?
DataDeploy only does content updates, not content reads. You can't use it to query a database for purposes like reporting. You'd need to set up your own JDBC connection for such things, ideally supported by an ORM framework.

[font color="blue"]Good, that's what i thought.[/font]

Please see the comments against in blue you questions.

Thank You

Rick Poulin

Your answers don't clear up my confusion very much.. it would help to know what you're trying to do with this.

In a workflow context, you can write getCurrentTask() by asking a job instance for its tasks and then looping through that array to find the ones that are currently active. See CSWorkflow#getTasks and CSTask#isActive in the CSSDK.

setCurrentTask() can't be built because you can't arbitrarily activate a task in an active job. You have to execute pre-existing transitions until it gets to that step.

In an OD context, I don't believe you can check for these kinds of steps as part of the API, because all hooks execute at a very specific and predefined step, and there's absolutely nothing you can do to alter the flow other than returning "success" or "failure"... but again, it would help to know what you're trying to do.