Create new variable type in flowable

Flowable Engine
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I want to put a local variable to user task by ‘api /task/{taskId}/variables’ with person object.
A person has 3 properties (name, age, address).

I create a custom ProcessEngineConfigurator implement from EngineConfigurator.

@Override
public void configure(AbstractEngineConfiguration engineConfiguration) {
SpringProcessEngineConfiguration appEngineConfiguration = (SpringProcessEngineConfiguration) engineConfiguration;
appEngineConfiguration.getVariableTypes().addType(new PersonVariableType(appEngineConfiguration.getMaxLengthString(),appEngineConfiguration.getObjectMapper()));

        // Invoked after the initialisation of the engine. Think afterInit
    }

I debug and check method .getVariableTypes() have PersonVariableType (my variable).
But When I test with post variable into user task then got error as follow:
“exception”: “Variable ‘person’ has unsupported type: ‘person’.”

My question. How to add custom variable type into flowable for easy parser to another tasks?

2

We can add new Variable Type using internal activity.
example. I put it pre task and get it in next task. But can not got it from rest api.
How to add RestVariable for convert object when use spring api.

3

VariableTypes are shared between engines, so that code should work.

Do you mean you got it working?