1. Developing SOA Applications with Oracle SOA Suite
  2. Using the Human Workflow Service Component
  3. Understanding Human Workflow Services
  4. Introduction to Human Workflow Services
  5. Task Metadata Service

Task Metadata Service

The task metadata service exposes operations to retrieve metadata information related to a task. Table 34-6 describes some of the common operations of task metadata service. Package oracle.bpel.services.workflow.metadata corresponds to the task metadata service.

For more information about the task metadata service, see Workflow Services Java API Reference for Oracle SOA Suite.

Table 34-6 Task Metadata Service Methods

Method Description

getTaskMetadataByNamespace

Gets the TaskMetadata object that describes the human task service component with the specified task definition namespace and composite version.

getOutcomes

Gets the permitted outcomes of a task. The outcomes are returned with their display values.

getResourceBundleInfo

Gets the resource bundle information of the task. The resource bundle information contains the location and the name of the bundle.

getRestrictedActions

Gets the actions that are restricted for a particular task.

getTaskAttributesForTaskDefinitions

Gets a list of TaskAttribute objects that describe standard task attributes and mapped attribute columns that are common for the specified task definitions.

getTaskAttributesForTaskNamespaces

Gets a list of TaskAttribute objects that describe standard task attributes and mapped attribute columns that are common for task definitions identified by the specified namespaces.

getTaskAttributes

Gets the task message attributes.

getTaskAttributesForTaskDefinition

Gets the message attributes for a particular task definition.

getTaskDefinition

Gets the task definition associated with the task.

getTaskDefinitionById

Gets the task definition by the task definition ID.

getTaskDefinitionOutcome

Gets the outcomes given the task definition ID.

getTaskVisibilityRules

Gets the task visibility rules.

getTaskDisplayRegion

Gets the task display region for a task.

getVersionTrackedAttrs

Gets the task attributes that when changed cause a task version creation.

listTaskMetadata

Lists the task definitions in the system.