Bug 813183

Summary: Start timer event does not trigger
Product: [JBoss] JBoss Enterprise BRMS Platform 5 Reporter: Tomas Schlosser <tschloss>
Component: jBPM 5Assignee: Kris Verlaenen <kverlaen>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact: Radovan Synek <rsynek>
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Description Tomas Schlosser 2012-04-17 07:22:00 UTC 
Description of problem:
When using start timer event with timerDelay attribute, it is never triggered. Tried calling fireAllRules() and starting process by startProcess(). fireAllRules does nothing and startProcess() starts the process right away.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
BRMS-5.3.0.ER5

How reproducible:
every time

Additional info:
pull request will follow
Comment 1 Tomas Schlosser 2012-04-17 07:31:37 UTC 
pull request #87 was opened
Comment 2 Kris Verlaenen 2012-04-23 00:02:00 UTC 
Currently, only start timers using timeCycle are supported.  Timer definitions can take two formats (and are internally translated into timer rules):

1) int timers: the given value is used as delay + cycle, so process will fire every time the period is over
For example:
    <startEvent id="_1" name="StartProcess" >
      <timerEventDefinition>
        <timeCycle xsi:type="tFormalExpression">500ms</timeCycle>
      </timerEventDefinition>
    </startEvent>
Int timer tranlates int timer rule: timer (int:period period)

2) cron timers (timer language is set to "cron") uses a cron expression to determine when the process should fire
translates into cron timer rule
    <startEvent id="_1" name="StartProcess" >
      <timerEventDefinition>
        <timeCycle xsi:type="tFormalExpression" language="cron">0/1 * * * * ?</timeCycle>
      </timerEventDefinition>
    </startEvent>
Comment 3 Tomas Schlosser 2012-04-24 05:30:00 UTC 
Adding tecnical_note to make sure this is properly documented.
Comment 4 lcarlon 2012-05-30 23:30:26 UTC 
Sorry Tomas, 

adding the technical note flag to a bug that doesn't have the product release flag doesn't trigger any docs alerts. The technical_note flag should only be used for issues that require an entry in the release notes. A better way would be to raise a docs bug or reassign the bug to me with a note stating what needs to be done.

I've removed the timerDelay entry from the Process Overview chapter.

Thanks
Lee