Getting the task ID within a JSP CGITask

Hi,

I have created a JSP for a CGITask.

I want to know the best way to get hold of the the task ID of the CGITask within the JSP. I need to run some logic specific to the task like getting the list of files attached to task, getting task owner etc..

Is task ID available as a parameter in the request object?

Or Is it part of the request attributes?

Or it needs to be passed as a parameter? (If so how to do it?)

Or any other solution?

Thanks,

Vinay.

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Adam Stoller

From a Perl perspective - the information would be contained within form-variables and/or cookies.

As such, I'm thinking that you should be able to find the information within the request object - try doing something like this to help debug / verify.

vini_mysuru

Hi Ghoti,

Thanks for the response.

I did get hold of the request parameters and attributes and printed them on the page. I could not find any object that would give me the task/job details.

I am thinking of including a URL task at the early stage of the workflow that will set a job variable jobID. Then from the CGITask, I could get the task ID using task name. I am sure this is technically possible but not sure if this is the best way to do it. Please let me know if there is a better way.

Cheers!

Vinay

Adam Stoller

Is the JSP backed up with Java code?

That's the way I did this kind of thing a number of years ago, and I was able to get the task_id from the request object without any problem - using:

 String[] tmp = request.getParameterValues("task_id");
 int taskid   = Integer.parseInt(tmp[0]);

vini_mysuru

Thanks ghoti. This just works fine. I did a silly mistake when I put the code to list the paramentaers available. I opened the JSP direclty on the browser instead of reaching to it through a workflow job.

i realized the mistake and tried again. Found task_id parameter in the request object.

Thanks again!

Vinay