Package com.flowable.action.api.bot

Interface ContextAwareBotService

All Superinterfaces:

BotService

All Known Implementing Classes:

ScriptEvaluationBot

public interface ContextAwareBotService
extends BotService

The context object aware variant of BotService.

Adapts to the new BotService.invokeBot(BotInvocationContext) method and does not force to implement the discouraged invokeBot(HistoricActionInstance, ActionDefinition, Map) method. Override BotService.getName() and BotService.getDescription() if required.

Author:

Arthur Hupka-Merle

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
BotActionResult	invokeBot(BotInvocationContext context)	Whenever an action definition is triggered, an action instance is created and this method is invoked in order to execute the action.
default BotActionResult	invokeBot(HistoricActionInstance actionInstance, ActionDefinition actionDefinition, Map<String,Object> payload)	Whenever an action definition is triggered, an action instance is created and this method is invoked in order to execute the action.

Methods inherited from interface com.flowable.action.api.bot.BotService

getDescription, getKey, getName

Method Details

invokeBot

default BotActionResult invokeBot(HistoricActionInstance actionInstance,
 ActionDefinition actionDefinition,
 Map<String,Object> payload)

Description copied from interface: BotService

Whenever an action definition is triggered, an action instance is created and this method is invoked in order to execute the action. You need to provide an action result according the execution and follow up needed.

API NOTE: Prefer overriding BotService.invokeBot(BotInvocationContext) instead and leave this empty. Alternatively use ContextAwareBotService instead, to avoid overriding an empty method.

Specified by:

invokeBot in interface BotService

Parameters:

actionInstance - the action instance to run

actionDefinition - the action definition where the action instance is based on

payload - the optional payload containing the necessary information to run the action

invokeBot

BotActionResult invokeBot(BotInvocationContext context)

Description copied from interface: BotService

Whenever an action definition is triggered, an action instance is created and this method is invoked in order to execute the action. You need to provide an action result according the execution and follow up needed.

Specified by:

invokeBot in interface BotService

Parameters:

context - context objects related to the invocation

Returns:

the result of invoking the action