Hey Mike,
From: <Cayanan>, "Michael D (388J)" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Thursday, December 20, 2012 4:37 PM To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: Workflow 2 Hey Chris, Sorry, I tried attaching my entire workflow distribution package to the previous e-mail so that you can try it out on your local machine, but it looks like the exchange server didn't like that. I'm attaching just the workflow.properties and the workflow 2 policy that I'm using. Thanks no problem! Answers, read on below :) I added a link from the front page under the 'Workflow/CAS-PGE/Resource Manager' area :D Thanks! I've been playing around with the latest Workflow from the trunk using the TestParallel example given in the examples/wengine folder so that I can learn more about how to create Workflow 2 policy. I ran into a few issues that I was hoping you could help me out with: 1) The timeout condition doesn't appear to be working. I changed the timeout to '600' seconds instead of '20' to let the event run for a longer period of time. However, the event appears to run the same amount of time with the timeout=20 vs timeout=600. Yep this isn't support in the PrioritizedQueueBasedWorkflowEngine yet. Try using the ThreadPoolWorkflowEngine, with the PackagedWorkflowRepository this should work. 2) I'm trying to pass in a 'numSeconds' metadata to the workflow event so that the intensive task can run for 60 seconds instead of the default 10 seconds. But the log keeps indicating that the number of seconds is set at 10. This is how I'm triggering the event on the command-line: % ./wmgr-client -u http://localhost:9001 -en urn:oodt:TestParallel --metaData --key numSeconds 60 -op -se Dec 20, 2012 4:25:34 PM org.apache.oodt.cas.workflow.system.XmlRpcWorkflowManager handleEvent INFO: WorkflowManager: Received event: urn:oodt:TestParallel Dec 20, 2012 4:25:34 PM org.apache.oodt.cas.workflow.system.XmlRpcWorkflowManager handleEvent INFO: WorkflowManager: Workflow HelloGoodbye retrieved for event urn:oodt:TestParallel Dec 20, 2012 4:25:34 PM org.apache.oodt.cas.workflow.system.XmlRpcWorkflowManager handleEvent INFO: WorkflowManager: Workflow Parallel Single Task Processor Intensive Task retrieved for event urn:oodt:TestParallel Dec 20, 2012 4:25:36 PM org.apache.oodt.cas.workflow.engine.TaskQuerier run INFO: Added processor with priority: [MEDIUM : 5.0] Task: Num seconds: 10 Dec 20, 2012 4:25:36 PM org.apache.oodt.cas.workflow.engine.TaskQuerier run INFO: Added processor with priority: [MEDIUM : 5.0] Hello World: Chris Dec 20, 2012 4:25:36 PM org.apache.oodt.cas.workflow.engine.runner.AsynchronousLocalEngineRunner$1 run INFO: Task: [Hello World] for instance id: [f06e0357-4b04-11e2-95a4-edbfb4ca9bb3] completed successfully Dec 20, 2012 4:25:36 PM org.apache.oodt.cas.workflow.engine.TaskQuerier run INFO: Added processor with priority: [MEDIUM : 5.0] Goodbye World: Chris Dec 20, 2012 4:25:36 PM org.apache.oodt.cas.workflow.engine.runner.AsynchronousLocalEngineRunner$1 run INFO: Task: [Goodbye World] for instance id: [f0738198-4b04-11e2-95a4-edbfb4ca9bb3] completed successfully Dec 20, 2012 4:25:46 PM org.apache.oodt.cas.workflow.engine.runner.AsynchronousLocalEngineRunner$1 run INFO: Task: [Processor Intensive Task] for instance id: [f0632de6-4b04-11e2-95a4-edbfb4ca9bb3] completed successfully Yep it's not honoring these properties yet — but the ThreadPoolWorkflowEngine will. See latest status in OODT-491 [1]. 3) When I try to look at the list of Workflow Instances that have ran or are running currently, I get an exception thrown: % ./wmgr-client -u http://localhost:9001 -op -winsts org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpcException: java.lang.Exception: org.apache.oodt.cas.workflow.structs.exceptions.EngineException: Exception getting workflow instances from workflow engine: Message: null at org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpcClientResponseProcessor.decodeException(XmlRpcClientResponseProcessor.java:104) at org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpcClientResponseProcessor.decodeResponse(XmlRpcClientResponseProcessor.java:71) at org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpcClientWorker.execute(XmlRpcClientWorker.java:73) at org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpcClient.execute(XmlRpcClient.java:194) at org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpcClient.execute(XmlRpcClient.java:185) at org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpcClient.execute(XmlRpcClient.java:178) at org.apache.oodt.cas.workflow.system.XmlRpcWorkflowManagerClient.getWorkflowInstances(XmlRpcWorkflowManagerClient.java:653) at org.apache.oodt.cas.workflow.cli.action.GetWorkflowInstsCliAction.execute(GetWorkflowInstsCliAction.java:42) at org.apache.oodt.cas.cli.CmdLineUtility.execute(CmdLineUtility.java:331) at org.apache.oodt.cas.cli.CmdLineUtility.run(CmdLineUtility.java:187) at org.apache.oodt.cas.workflow.system.XmlRpcWorkflowManagerClient.main(XmlRpcWorkflowManagerClient.java:678) ERROR: Failed to get workflow instances from URL 'http://localhost:9001' : java.lang.Exception: org.apache.oodt.cas.workflow.structs.exceptions.EngineException: Exception getting workflow instances from workflow engine: Message: null In the Workflow log, it shows the following exception: Dec 20, 2012 4:26:52 PM org.apache.oodt.cas.workflow.system.XmlRpcWorkflowManager getWorkflowInstances INFO: Getting workflow instances: retrieved: 10 instances java.lang.NullPointerException at java.util.Hashtable.put(Hashtable.java:394) at org.apache.oodt.cas.workflow.util.XmlRpcStructFactory.getXmlRpcWorkflow(XmlRpcStructFactory.java:227) at org.apache.oodt.cas.workflow.util.XmlRpcStructFactory.getXmlRpcWorkflowInstance(XmlRpcStructFactory.java:114) at org.apache.oodt.cas.workflow.system.XmlRpcWorkflowManager.getWorkflowInstances(XmlRpcWorkflowManager.java:448) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.apache.xmlrpc.Invoker.execute(Invoker.java:130) at org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpcWorker.invokeHandler(XmlRpcWorker.java:84) at org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpcWorker.execute(XmlRpcWorker.java:146) at org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpcServer.execute(XmlRpcServer.java:139) at org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpcServer.execute(XmlRpcServer.java:125) at org.apache.xmlrpc.WebServer$Connection.run(WebServer.java:761) at org.apache.xmlrpc.WebServer$Runner.run(WebServer.java:642) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:680) I'm guessing I'm forgetting to set something in the policy. However, I'm not sure what is missing. Nah you're fine. I think this is an issue with the Serialization/Deserialization of ParentChildWorkflows. Can you file a JIRA issue for this one and link it to OODT-491 [1]? A different way that works and that will give you the same result is to run: ./wmgr-client —url http://localhost:9001 —operation —getFirstPage Cheers, Chris [1] http://isuses.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-491 From: <Mattmann>, Chris Mattmann <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 6:54 PM To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: Workflow 2 Mike you ROCK! I'll help you expand this. Also I'll add a link from the front page of the Wiki if you haven't alreadyŠ Cheers, Chris From: <Cayanan>, "Michael D (388J)" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 11:10 AM To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: Workflow 2 Hi all, I've started a Quick Start Guide for Workflow2 on our wiki: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OODT/Workflow2+Quick+Start+Guide It contains some workflow.properties configuration that's needed and some FAQ on Workflow2. Feel free to add to this page for those that our Workflow2 gurus. :) I'm a newbie to Workflow2 so I intend on adding to it at some point in the near future once I stand up a Workflow using Workflow2 policy. Cheers, Mike From: <Cayanan>, "Michael D (388J)" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Thursday, December 13, 2012 3:18 PM To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: Workflow 2 Sounds good. Ya I saw Brian's Wengine User Guide on the wiki, but wasn't sure if it was outdated or not. It does have a lot of useful information in there. Good idea on wanting to start up a Workflow 2 Quick Start page. I will definitely start one up and include information in this thread on there as a starting point and we'll build on it as we go along. Cheers, Mike From: <Mattmann>, Chris Mattmann <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Thursday, December 13, 2012 11:43 AM To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: Workflow 2 Hi Mike, From: <Cayanan>, "Michael D (388J)" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Thursday, December 13, 2012 10:41 AM To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: Workflow 2 Thanks for the helpful information Chris. This is a good starting point! Woot! Can you help me start documenting this on the Apache OODT wiki? I threw up Brian's Wengine user guide, which is useful in its own right since we still have the branch out there, and some folks using it, but how about we start a new "Workflow 2 Quick Start" page on the wiki and through this and stuff below on it? If I wanted to specify parallel tasks in a workflow, that would mean I'd have to use workflow 2 policy instead of workflow 1 policy, correct? If this isn't true, how does one specify parallel tasks using workflow 1 policy? Yep you would use workflow2 style policy of which there are examples in src/main/resources/wengine in the trunk. Thanks! Cheers, Chris Thanks, Mike From: <Mattmann>, Chris Mattmann <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 6:50 PM To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: Workflow 2 Hey Mike, From: <Cayanan>, "Michael D (388J)" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 10:15 AM To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Workflow 2 Hi all, I would like to start using the latest and greatest Workflow in the trunk. Has anyone been using it lately? That would be me :) I'm trying to figure out which configuration files are needed now in order to run this latest version. Or is it backwards compatible? It's fully back compat. So feel free to point wengine at your existing CAS workflow 1 policy and it should load fine. In 0.3, I know I had to configure a couple of xml files: events.xml, task.xml, conditions.xml. However, in the examples directory, I do see a wengine folder, where it looks like those 3 config files aren't needed anymore? They don't have to be used, but they can be used. If someone can point me to some sample set of files I can use as a reference, that would be awesome! :D Sure, check this out: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/oodt/trunk/workflow/src/main/resources/examples/ Those files should work fine. Give it a try. As for your workflow.properties file, it should look like this: # wengine properties # define workflow prioritizer class to use for sorting workflow tasks org.apache.oodt.cas.workflow.wengine.prioritizer=org.apache.oodt.cas.workflow.structs.FILOPrioritySorter org.apache.oodt.cas.workflow.wengine.taskquerier.waitSeconds=2 # the maximum number of threads to be used by the asynchronous engine runner org.apache.oodt.cas.workflow.engine.asynchronous.runner.num.threads=25 You'll need those properties at a minimum. Then, at the top of your file, select: # workflow repository factory workflow.repo.factory = org.apache.oodt.cas.workflow.repository.PackagedWorkflowRepositoryFactory # workflow engine factory workflow.engine.factory = org.apache.oodt.cas.workflow.engine.PrioritizedQueueBasedWorkflowEngineFactory # engine runner factory workflow.wengine.runner.factory=org.apache.oodt.cas.workflow.engine.runner.AsynchronousLocalEngineRunnerFactory Remember for your packaged workflow repo to set: # wengine-style packaged workflow repo properties org.apache.oodt.cas.workflow.wengine.packagedRepo.dir.path = /path/to/wengine/workflow/files And to define your wengine lifecycle: org.apache.oodt.cas.workflow.lifecycle.filePath=/usr/local/workflow/policy/wengine/wengine-lifecycle.xml HTH! Cheers, Chris
