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  1. camunda BPM
  2. CAM-10588

Spring boot: TransactionalEventListener fires wrong events

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      Bug description

      What are the steps to reproduce your problem ?

      1. Build a spring boot application with config
      camunda:
        bpm:
          eventing:
            task: true
      
      1. Build a listener as shown in https://docs.camunda.org/manual/7.11/user-guide/spring-boot-integration/the-spring-event-bridge/ and log the events coming in.
        Annotate the event method using
        @TransactionalEventListener(phase = TransactionPhase.AFTER_COMMIT, fallbackExecution = true)
        instead of
        @EventListener
      2. Deploy a process with a usertask and an assignee set.

      What is the problem?

      Once the engine hits the usertask two events fire:

      • create
      • create

      What would be the expected behavior:

      Once the engine hits the usertask two events fire:

      • assignment
      • create

      Root cause

      The event listener is asynchronous, i.e. handles the event only after transaction commit.
      As the DelegateTask object is the task that is mutated by the engine, its state has changed until then.

      On a side note: with such listeners it doesn't make sense to expose setter methods in the event, because they will likely have no effect

      Solution outline:

      For task and execution listener events, we should publish two types of events:

      • A mutable Delegate* event (this is what we currently do)
      • An immutable task/execution event that copies the Delegate* properties and exposes only getters

      We should document both event types and mention the limitation that the mutable event type can only be used with synchronous listeners.

        This is the controller panel for Smart Panels app

              nikola.koevski Nikola Koevski
              garima.yadav Garima Yadav
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