Creating Deadlines and Durations

Whenever you need to specify a processing time for a notification instance, you create a deadline. It can be:

• An exact date set in time (

  DEADLINE_ABSOLUTE_POINT

  )
• Duration related to some starting point:

  • DEADLINE_FROM_ACTION_START

    - a duration related to action start

  • DEADLINE_FROM_PROCESS_START

    - a duration related to process start

• You have set up your project in SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio. For more information, see Setting Up Your Project .
• You have instantiated the runtime and notification managers. For more information, see Retrieving Process Notification Instances .

Creating an Absolute Deadline

For this type of deadline, you need to specify an exact deadline date. You should not provide duration:

importcom.sap.caf.eu.gp.process.rt.notification.api.GPNotificationFactory;

importcom.sap.caf.eu.gp.process.api.IGPDeadline;

//Create a deadline in one hour

IGPDeadlinedeadline = GPNotificationFactory.createDeadline(

                                      IGPDeadline.DEADLINE_ABSOLUTE_POINT,

                                      null,

                                      0,

                                      System.currentTimeMillis()

                                             + 10*1000*60*60

                                    );

Creating a Deadline with Duration

1. For this type of deadline, you have to create duration first. You specify the duration type and time period:

importcom.sap.caf.eu.gp.process.rt.notification.api.GPNotificationFactory;

importcom.sap.caf.eu.gp.process.api.IGPDuration;

// create a duration of one hour

IGPDurationduration = GPNotificationFactory.createDuration(

                                          1,

                                          IGPDuration.DURATION_HOUR

                                        );

You can choose from the following duration types:

• DURATION_MINUTE

• DURATION_HOUR

• DURATION_DAY

• DURATION_WEEK

• DURATION_MONTH

• DURATION_YEAR

1. Use the duration created above to create a deadline.

   This time, specify duration and a start date from which the deadline can be calculated:

importcom.sap.caf.eu.gp.process.api.IGPDeadline;

// create a deadline with duration one hour (start date is current system time)

IGPDeadlinedeadline2 = GPNotificationFactory.createDeadline(

                                      IGPDeadline.DEADLINE_FROM_PROCESS_START,

                                      duration,

                                      System.currentTimeMillis(),

                                      0

                                    );

You may use the deadlines you have created to update the processing time information of notification instances. For more information, see Updating Notification Processing Time and Status .