Config global job category

[hoaxvo16]

Problem

I have two engines, and I want to create a job category for each engine. As I read the code, I noticed that the JobService only allows querying jobs by category and does not support querying by tenant ID. Therefore, I added a configuration:

 config.addEnabledJobCategory(tenantId);

to SpringProcessEngineConfiguration But it doesn't work. As I delved deeper into the code, I discovered that there were two instances of the JobUtil class being used to create new Job objects:

org.flowable.engine.impl.util.JobUtil

and

org.flowable.cmmn.engine.impl.util.JobUtil

And the way it creates a job is by utilizing the extension element named 'jobCategory' of the BPMN modell:

 protected static JobEntity createJob(VariableContainer variableContainer, BaseElement baseElement, String jobHandlerType, CmmnEngineConfiguration cmmnEngineConfiguration) {
        JobService jobService = cmmnEngineConfiguration.getJobServiceConfiguration().getJobService();
        JobEntity job = jobService.createJob();

        job.setJobHandlerType(jobHandlerType);
        job.setScopeType(ScopeTypes.CMMN);
        job.setElementId(baseElement.getId());
        if (baseElement instanceof CaseElement) {
            job.setElementName(((CaseElement) baseElement).getName());
        }

        List<ExtensionElement> jobCategoryElements = baseElement.getExtensionElements().get("jobCategory");
        if (jobCategoryElements != null && jobCategoryElements.size() > 0) {
            ExtensionElement jobCategoryElement = jobCategoryElements.get(0);
            if (StringUtils.isNotEmpty(jobCategoryElement.getElementText())) {
                Expression categoryExpression = cmmnEngineConfiguration.getExpressionManager().createExpression(jobCategoryElement.getElementText());
                Object categoryValue = categoryExpression.getValue(variableContainer);
                if (categoryValue != null) {
                    job.setCategory(categoryValue.toString());
                }
            }
        }


        job.setTenantId(variableContainer.getTenantId());

        return job;
    }

I have to add the following XML snippet in every BPMN node:

<flowable:jobCategory>myJobCategory</flowable:jobCategory>

My question is, is there any way to configure the engine to create jobs with a single category using a global configuration?

[nhatanh2996]

+1 need approve it

[nhatanh2996]

same issue at PR#3734

[tijsrademakers]

No there is currently no global configuration to set a single category, it needs to be set for all BPMN elements where needed.

[hoaxvo16]

@tijsrademakers is there anyway to config two engine using the same db schema and each engine manage it own jobs?