2007/7/6, Rahul Akolkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
It is my interpretation of, quoted from your reference: "Note that the <invoke> element may be used to invoke an external SCXML interpreter to execute a different state machine. In this case, the external state machine acts as a set of substates of the invoking state. The behavior is thus similar to a complex state defined with <state> child elements."
Makes sense for sub machines! One would expect substates to receive all the same events. I had a look at the implementation of invoke again. It apears that external events (i.e. triggerEvents()) are used to feed events into both engines. parentEvents() uses it to feed external events occuring at the parent into the child engine and the child engine uses it to feed *.invoke.done into the parents engine. But I have missed how the child machine may send events during execution to its parent. If you also use external events (i.e. a triggerEvent) to send events to the parent, how would you avoid that the same event is forwarded again into the invoke'd machine? Also I have not found how events are automatically forwarded from the child to the parent. Assume I use a <send event="foo" targettype="scxml"/> within the child. This would let an external event occur at the child. Now - taking the assumption that an invoke'd child machine behaves like a complex state within the parent - I would assume that the external event occuring at the child is also fed into the parent. Ingmar.
Makes sense, and should be possible. If you want to track this, please open a ticket in JIRA [1]. I may not be able to get to it for a couple of weeks. If you want to take a stab at it, you will have to modify the execute() method in oacs.model.Send. Currently, the "invokedID" is effectively the ID of the parent <state>, but that may need to be revisited as well.
[1] http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/scxml/issue-tracking.html
