As I understand the Camunda documentation any Task has access to all process variables of a process instance. This seems unfortunate in case of external Tasks. Those tasks are handled by external processes, maybe implemented by other teams. It seems to me I loose all control of my internal state by exposing them.
Until now I found two workarounds:
- Hide variables with local variable of the same name. Very error prone and high maintenance.
- Encapsulate an external task by a Call Activity and have control over which (copies of) variables are passed in.
Thanks for any advice.
– Michał