Flowable and liquibase

Flowable Engine
1

Hi,

Will flowable start using liquibase for database schema management? I checked project “flowable-content-engine” and is using liquibase, but the remaining modules does not.

Thanks in advance.

2

Hi João,

Flowable engines use liquibase for managing database schema. “Remaining” modules, like content-api etc, need not to use liquibase.

Regards
Martin

3

Hi Martin,

Thanks for your answer (@martin.grofcik).

We are using v6.4.1 and we can not find information about flowable and liquibase. Currently we are using SpringProcessEngineConfiguration with databaseSchemaUpdate = true.

I was checking ProcessEngineConfigurationImpl and initSchemaManager method. All schema managers of common, process, identity links, variables, tasks and jobs modules extends AbstractSqlScriptBasedDbSchemaManager.

I can not find any changelog files used by liquibase. Are we missing any dependency, any configuration?

Thanks.

4

Hi João,

Process engine does not use liquibase. (because of historic reasons)Upgrades are done by proprietary schemaManager. You can find upgrade scripts in org/flowable/db/upgrade/* folder in resources.

Regards
Martin

5

Hi Martin,

Sorry for insisting, but there are no plans to use liquibase in process engine? I understand the historic reasons …

We have done something similar and started using liquibase in an existing system.

6

Hi João,

I do not see any on the roadmap.

Regards
Martin