Unable to Trigger an Event from Action

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I am setting up spring state-machine transactions, i want to launch Event2 on completion of Event1

These are the states i have

States -> "INITIAL", "SECOND", "THIRD"

I have configured the transactions to send SECOND_EVENT from action of FIRST_EVENT as shown below

transitions.withExternal()
    .source("INITIAL")
    .target("SECOND")
    .event("FIRST_EVENT")
    .action(new Action<String, String>() {
        @Override
        public void execute(StateContext<String, String> context) {
            System.out.println("FIRST_ACTION_EXECUTED");
            context.getStateMachine().sendEvent("SECOND_EVENT");
        }
    })
    .and()
    .withExternal()
    .source("SECOND")
    .target("THIRD")
    .event("SECOND_EVENT")
    .action(new Action<String, String>() {
        @Override
        public void execute(StateContext<String, String> context) {
            System.out.println("TEST SUCCESS");
        }
    });

Here i get evenNotAccepted exception, and i know the reason is that the statemachine.getState() is INITIAL, and it cant change the state from INITIAL to THIRD directly.

So my question is, Is there anyway that i can configure my statemachine to automatically trigger second event on completion of first event

spring-statemachine java
1 Answers

It's because of the type of actions you're using. There are two main types of actions in the Spring SM - transition actions and state actions - and they resolve on different times. You can see a sequence of resolving of those actions here.

In order to fire events to go to your next state, you should use state actions.

You can configure state actions like so:

   builder.configureStates()
            .withStates()
            .initial(SI)
            .state(F1, context -> context.getStateMachine().sendEvent(E2))
            .state(F2, context -> context.getStateMachine().sendEvent(E3))
            .end(SF);

    builder.configureTransitions()
            .withExternal().source(SI).target(F1).event(E1)
            .and()
            .withExternal().source(F1).target(F2).event(E2)
            .and()
            .withExternal().source(F2).target(SF).event(E3)
                .action(context -> System.out.println("Completing SM!"));

Just firing event E1 manually, will result in the following output (events E2 and E3 are auto-fired through state actions):

STATE ENTERED: SI
STAGE TRANSITIONS From: null To: SI
STATE EXITED: SI
STATE ENTERED: F1
STAGE TRANSITIONS From: SI To: F1
21:45:39.153 [pool-2-thread-1] DEBUG org.springframework.statemachine.support.AbstractStateMachine - Queue event GenericMessage [payload=E2, headers={id=393a5636-a760-57d6-a98b-d31eb75f048e, timestamp=1560969939152}] SF F2 F1 SI  / F1 / uuid=4e8773c1-e755-40de-b431-e53a4b0ca64d / id=null
STATE EXITED: F1
STATE ENTERED: F2
STAGE TRANSITIONS From: F1 To: F2
21:45:39.161 [pool-2-thread-1] DEBUG org.springframework.statemachine.support.AbstractStateMachine - Queue event GenericMessage [payload=E3, headers={id=f5899e8b-e4a5-e079-3a30-66114a7accac, timestamp=1560969939161}] SF F2 F1 SI  / F2 / uuid=4e8773c1-e755-40de-b431-e53a4b0ca64d / id=null
Completing SM!
STATE EXITED: F2
STATE ENTERED: SF
STAGE TRANSITIONS From: F2 To: SF
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