On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 7:07 PM, Daniel Luis dos Santos <daniel.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Ok invoke is another thing. Meanwhile I did write some custom actions. What I > am doing is trying to call the object from within the actions. > I managed to get an instance to the object by passing a reference to it in > the event trigger method in my client code. I then access the parent context > inside the custom action and get the '_eventdata' object. > <snip/>
OK. > I was trying to define a variable with the <var> element inside the <onentry> > element but the engine warned me it was ignoring it. Do you know why ? I saw > in the datamodel section of the site that you can define them. (Although > there is not a word of it in the 2011 w3c spec) > <snap/> It was removed from the spec, but is supported by Commons SCXML in its own namespace. For example, assume the cs prefix is bound like so: <?xml version="1.0"?> <scxml xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/07/scxml"; xmlns:cs="http://commons.apache.org/scxml"; ... > Then you may use var like so: <cs:var ... /> -Rahul > Sorry for my ignorance and dumb questions but I am very new to all this. > > Thanks > Daniel Santos > > > > > On Oct 3, 2011, at 11:55 PM, Rahul Akolkar wrote: > >> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Daniel Luis dos Santos >> <daniel.d...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I am beggining to use commons-SCXML. For now I created a generic class that >>> wraps the library's code just like the class AbstractStateMachine in the >>> stopwatch example. >>> >>> Each class from my application that will be governed by a state machine has >>> an instance of this, and has methods to trigger events on it. >> <snip/> >> >> Note that the AbstractStateMachine pattern is a starter pattern and is >> limited if used in isolation. More patterns here: >> >> http://commons.apache.org/scxml/guide/using-commons-scxml.html >> >> >>> What I want to do is have methods from the object be called from state >>> machine events. For example, when I enter a state I want to be able to call >>> a method on the stateful object. >>> >>> I am trying to use invoke inside <onentry> but the markup is ignored. How >>> can I do this ? >>> >> <snap/> >> >> If you're talking about the <invoke> element, that is not an action >> (its a child of state not onentry) and requires Invoker >> implementations to be registered with the executor for each "type" of >> invoke. >> >> If you want to call arbitrary Java methods within <onentry>, best to >> write a custom action for that. More on that here: >> >> http://commons.apache.org/scxml/guide/custom-actions.html >> >> -Rahul >> >> >>> I am using version 0.9 from maven central. >>> >>> Thanks >>> Daniel Santos >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@commons.apache.org
