JR44978: WEB PROCESS INSPECTOR DOES NOT SUPPORT EDITING OF SIMPLE BUSINESS OBJECTS AS PART OF TASK DATA

Version 8.0.1 Fix Pack 1 for the IBM Business Process Manager products

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• If a Business Object is created and is a simple type, the Web
  Process Inspector throws an IOException when the task data is
  viewed using the "Edit Data" feature
  

Local fix

• n/a
  

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED:  Any administrator of processes that use     *
  *                  simple business objects as part of task     *
  *                  data.                                       *
  ****************************************************************
  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: The Web Inspector REST Facade does      *
  *                      not correctly handle variables where    *
  *                      the type has simply been aliased        *
  *                      (i.e. a custom BO created with a        *
  *                      simple type, e.g. Date). It only        *
  *                      handles primitive types and complex     *
  *                      type variables properly.                *
  ****************************************************************
  * RECOMMENDATION:                                              *
  ****************************************************************
  A variable has two different "types" - there is a type name,
  as well as an actual type. For example, the customer's type in
  this scenario was "Wirksamkeit", whereas the actual type was
  "date". The code was incorrectly using the type name to
  determine type information, which works properly for primitive
  types like Strings, Integers, etc., but will not handle this
  case. The code made the assumption that anything that's
  not a primitive type should just be parsed as JSON and
  returned to the browser, but this assumption only holds if the
  actual type is "object" (e.g. the variable is a complex type).
  

Problem conclusion

• Code was added to make the actual type name available to the
  affected method (as String, which is used for stringifying
  variables based on their input type) in the code. We also
  added fallback code to catch parser errors and instead fall
  back to stringifying the variable.
  
  For install/uninstall instructions, please download the README
  file along with the JR44978 ifix file from Fix Central.
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  BPM STANDARD

• Fixed component ID

  5725C9500

Applicable component levels

• R800 PSY

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