Problems with Activiti upgrade from Activiti 5.15 to Activiti 6

[mattia-be]

Good morning,

                   to upgrade, we followed the migration guide at the following link:
https://www.activiti.org/migration.html#_v5_compatibility

Including the part concerning compatibility with Activiti 5.

To date, we use a series of workflows that have sub-workflows within them.

After upgrading to Activiti 6, we encountered some issues and decided to run some tests.

Below I describe how much we have deduced:

1)

There is a workflow that was started before the upgrade to Activiti 6.
After updating and after reloading all workflows with engine 6, I see the flag in the db, we have continued the workflow.
However, once you get to the sub-workflow, when you try to start it, the application goes into error with the following exception:

16:06:28,162 ERROR [org.activiti.engine.impl.interceptor.CommandContext] (http-/127.0.0.1:8080-92) Error while closing command context: org.activiti.engine.ActivitiException: couldn't execute activity <callActivity id="callactivity4" ...>: org.activiti.engine.impl.persistence.entity.ProcessDefinitionEntityImpl cannot be cast to org.activiti5.engine.impl.persistence.entity.ProcessDefinitionEntity
at org.activiti.compatibility.DefaultActiviti5CompatibilityHandler.handleActivitiException(DefaultActiviti5CompatibilityHandler.java:997) [activiti5-compatibility-6.0.0.jar:]
at org.activiti.compatibility.DefaultActiviti5CompatibilityHandler.completeTask(DefaultActiviti5CompatibilityHandler.java:507) [activiti5-compatibility-6.0.0.jar:]
at org.activiti.engine.impl.cmd.CompleteTaskCmd.execute(CompleteTaskCmd.java:52) [activiti-engine-6.0.0.jar:6.0.0]
at org.activiti.engine.impl.cmd.CompleteTaskCmd.execute(CompleteTaskCmd.java:25) [activiti-engine-6.0.0.jar:6.0.0]
at org.activiti.engine.impl.cmd.NeedsActiveTaskCmd.execute(NeedsActiveTaskCmd.java:56) [activiti-engine-6.0.0.jar:6.0.0]
at org.activiti.engine.impl.interceptor.CommandInvoker$1.run(CommandInvoker.java:37) [activiti-engine-6.0.0.jar:6.0.0]
at org.activiti.engine.impl.interceptor.CommandInvoker.executeOperation(CommandInvoker.java:78) [activiti-engine-6.0.0.jar:6.0.0]
at org.activiti.engine.impl.interceptor.CommandInvoker.executeOperations(CommandInvoker.java:57) [activiti-engine-6.0.0.jar:6.0.0]
at org.activiti.engine.impl.interceptor.CommandInvoker.execute(CommandInvoker.java:42) [activiti-engine-6.0.0.jar:6.0.0]
at org.activiti.engine.impl.interceptor.TransactionContextInterceptor.execute(TransactionContextInterceptor.java:48) [activiti-engine-6.0.0.jar:6.0.0]
at org.activiti.engine.impl.interceptor.CommandContextInterceptor.execute(CommandContextInterceptor.java:63) [activiti-engine-6.0.0.jar:6.0.0]
at org.activiti.spring.SpringTransactionInterceptor$1.doInTransaction(SpringTransactionInterceptor.java:47) [activiti-spring-6.0.0.jar:6.0.0]
at org.springframework.transaction.support.TransactionTemplate.execute(TransactionTemplate.java:131) [spring-tx-3.2.7.RELEASE.jar:3.2.7.RELEASE]
at org.activiti.spring.SpringTransactionInterceptor.execute(SpringTransactionInterceptor.java:45) [activiti-spring-6.0.0.jar:6.0.0]
at org.activiti.engine.impl.interceptor.LogInterceptor.execute(LogInterceptor.java:29) [activiti-engine-6.0.0.jar:6.0.0]
at org.activiti.engine.impl.cfg.CommandExecutorImpl.execute(CommandExecutorImpl.java:44) [activiti-engine-6.0.0.jar:6.0.0]
at org.activiti.engine.impl.cfg.CommandExecutorImpl.execute(CommandExecutorImpl.java:39) [activiti-engine-6.0.0.jar:6.0.0]
at org.activiti.engine.impl.TaskServiceImpl.complete(TaskServiceImpl.java:186) [activiti-engine-6.0.0.jar:6.0.0]

2)

We decided to load only the sub-workflow with the Activiti Engine 5 mode, as described in the documentation:

deploymentProperty(DeploymentProperties.DEPLOY_AS_ACTIVITI5_PROCESS_DEFINITION, Boolean.TRUE

As regards the workflow started before the update to activiti 6, the start of the sub-workflow occurred without errors.

However, having started a new instance of the same workflow, when it arrives at the sub-workflow and tries to start it, it goes into error with the following exception:

Error while closing command context: org.activiti.engine.ActivitiException: No start element found for process definitionubblicazione:10:198564 --> Where Pubblicazione is sub-workflow name (defined into activiti.act_re_procdef table)

To solve the problem and still be able to use the entire workflow system, we reloaded all workflows with activiti5, 

deploymentProperty(DeploymentProperties.DEPLOY_AS_ACTIVITI5_PROCESS_DEFINITION, Boolean.TRUE, so that both the new and the old workflows are able to perform the sub-workflows, complete all the tasks and finish.

From our point of view it seems a compatibility bug.
We hope to have been useful and to have helped you to identify and solve the problem.
I hope you can look into the matter and provide us with support in this regard.

Thanks in advance

[arturkozyrski]

Hello ‌,

Did you somehow manage to solve this error? After upgrading to 6.0 we encountered the same problem and running out of option in order to fix it

[jNishant044]

Facing same issue (Activiti upgrade from Activiti 5.15 to Activiti 6)
Any Suggestion, It is working fine with 5.xx but issue with 6.00