Groovy Connector Exception while evaluating expression

Q&A
1

Hi folks,

I’m having occasionally this exception thrown:
org.bonitasoft.connectors.scripting.GroovyConnector - Exception : Exception while evaluating expression

I set up a Groovy script connector to retrieve user details using the code as below:

import org.ow2.bonita.util.AccessorUtil;

AccessorUtil.getIdentityAPI().getUser(createdBy).getEmail();

where “createdBy” is a global variable in text as workflow starts.

I’m launching simultaneously several workflow at a time (5 started over 30 sec.) for testing. Only one got exception thrown. Each time the global variable “createdBy” has the same valid value.

This is what I got as cause of error:

java.lang.IllegalStateException: RESTUser has not been set up using setUser(String user)!Problem may be:

  • you did not inform the REST user in the jass file (e.g. adding de option: restUser=“restuser”)
    at org.ow2.bonita.identity.auth.RESTUserOwner.getUser(SourceFile:49)
    at org.ow2.bonita.facade.interceptor.ClientRemoteAPIInterceptor.invoke(SourceFile:69)

What does that mean? How can the exception get thrown with the same scenario? Can I improve my code? Any idea is welcome.

Thanks by advance.

2

Hi,

did you have the same issue when you use the provided variable apiAccessor to retrieve your API? I.e.

apiAccessor.getIdentityAPI()

instead of

AccessorUtil.getIdentityAPI()

Regards,
Elias

3

Hi Elias,

I’ll try this. You are suggesting:

import org.ow2.bonita.facade.IdentityAPI;

apiAccessor.getIdentityAPI().getUser(createdBy).getEmail();

I read from the documentation that the getEmail() method of Interface User is Deprecated.
Are we supposed to do this with Interface ContactInfo?

Thank you for the tip.
Best regards

4

Hi,

yes, use ContactInfo to retrieve the email address, please. You can use, for instance, getProfessionalContactInfo().getEmail().

5

Hi,

We followed this track. It works well. We have not yet encountered the same problem since we’ve made change.

Thanks!