Event-Based gateway - two events behind an Event-Based gateway, both events triggered

Flowable Engine
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flowable engine version: 6.3.1

In our BPMN flow, we have two intermediate catch events behind the same Event-Based gateway - one message intermediate catching event, one timer intermediate catching event (which will be triggered in 30 minutes). We have done some testing with this BPMN flow as below:

  1. Sends a message which triggers the message intermediate catching event. And everything after executes just as expected.
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  2. Wait for 30minutes, the timer intermediate catching event is triggered. (which is supposed to be auto deleted after step 1, according to our understanding). This is unexpected and confusing.
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We tried to look at flowable source code for explanation, and found below comment in IntermediateCatchEventActivityBehavior:
/** * Specific leave method for intermediate events: does a normal leave(), except when behind an event based gateway. In that case, the other events are cancelled (we're only supporting the * exclusive event based gateway type currently). and the process instance is continued through the triggered event. */ public void leaveIntermediateCatchEvent(DelegateExecution execution)

But the behavior we observed is inconsistent with the comment we found - which says the other events are supposed to be cancelled.

Further more, we found that in the deleteOtherEventsRelatedToEventBasedGateway method of IntermediateCatchEventActivityBehavior:

// Execute the cancel behaviour of the IntermediateCatchEvent for (ExecutionEntity executionEntity : executionEntities) { if (eventActivityIds.contains(executionEntity.getActivityId()) && execution.getCurrentFlowElement() instanceof IntermediateCatchEvent) { IntermediateCatchEvent intermediateCatchEvent = (IntermediateCatchEvent) execution.getCurrentFlowElement(); if (intermediateCatchEvent.getBehavior() instanceof IntermediateCatchEventActivityBehavior) { ((IntermediateCatchEventActivityBehavior) intermediateCatchEvent.getBehavior()).eventCancelledByEventGateway(executionEntity); eventActivityIds.remove(executionEntity.getActivityId()); // We only need to delete ONE execution at the event. } } }

Should we use “executionEntity” variable instead of “execution”? Is this a possible bug? This behavior has bothered us for quite some time. Thank you for you help!

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Sorry, but we found out that the root cause is incorrect usage in our bpm flow. This is not a bug, please ignore it.