[kepler-dev] question about getting the Manager responsible for executing a workflow

Edward A. Lee eal at eecs.berkeley.edu
Tue Mar 27 14:39:27 PDT 2007


One possibility would be to make your listener an actor
rather than an attribute. It could have no ports and empty action
methods, except preinitialize(), which sets up the listener.
If you use the SDFDirector, you will need to check the "allowDisconnectedGraphs"
option.

Edward

At 01:36 PM 3/27/2007, Karen L Schuchardt wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I have a class that implements ExecutionListener.  My class also 
>implements AbstractSettableAttribute and is an object within a 
>workflow.  I would like it to get access to the Manager responsible for 
>executing the workflow so it can call addExecutionListener and take 
>action as events occur.
>
>In an earlier version of Kepler, I was able to "hack" the validate() 
>method of my class (subclass of AbstractSettableAttribtue) to add all 
>the listeners there.  However this method no longer seems to be called 
>at prerun time.  If I try to do it in the constructor of my object, the 
>Manager is null.  That is:
>CompositeActor topLevel = (CompositeActor)getContainer();
>System.out.println("CONT: " + topLevel);
>Manager manager = topLevel.getManager();
>System.out.println("MAN: " + manager);
>will result in null being printed for the manager.
>
>What is the proper way to get a hold of the Manager so that I can become 
>a listener before the workflow I'm part of  executes?  Or should I be 
>thinking of doing this in a different way?  Suggestions welcome.
>I tried to look at examples of other classes that call 
>addExecutionListener but these all seem to be applications that have 
>access to more information.
>
>Thanks,
>Karen
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