[Perl-workflow-devel] Action Input Field Types and Other Enhancements

[Alejandro I. <ai...@p2...>]

Hi all,

Thanks Jonas for pointing out the mailing list, and thanks to all for
such wonderful work, started out by Chris Winters and continued with
the current maintainer(s).

I have been fiddling with Workflow.pm for a while now for the p2ee
project, and now have the need to complete and figure out some stuff
to discuss here.

First, I would like to know the status of "Action Field Types" and if
no one is working on this, would like to volunteer to do some work on
it.

Second, and it's kind-a in-line with the above, there should be an
easy way to extend the attributes of any of the elements, starting
with Actions. For example, it should be easy to add new parameters to
the XML action tag both at the Workflow and the Action levels, and the
should be automatically added to the object and accessors added to
fiddle with them.

When starting to figure this out I noticed that
Workflow::Action::init() is not really doing anything but clobbering
$self->param, because the $params received is not what is expected for
things like $copy_params{class} to work. It seems that $params is
getting the _workflow object_ instead of a filtered Action of it's
type, So the accesors $self->name, class and such never have the
actual values. Here is the code I am referring to. If you dump $params
here you will see what I mean. Everything still works because the
public functions don't seem to use the acessors but rather scan the
wf_state in many cases.

########################################
# PRIVATE

sub init {
   my ( $self, $wf, $params ) = @_;

   # So we don't destroy the original...
   my %copy_params = %{$params};

   $self->class( $copy_params{class} );
   $self->name( $copy_params{name} );
   $self->description( $copy_params{description} );


Thanks beforehand, and sorry for the long first post.

Alejandro Imass