Use BPMN Model API for typical compensation use case

[thorben]

Hm, good question, not sure what the best way is. I personally lean towards consistency in such questions, but that’s debatable. If we want to prevent users from creating invalid models (e.g. compensation handlers with outgoing sequence flows), the compensationHandler() approach might be favourable, as it could return a builder that is limited to creating a single task.

On a side note, I found the idea proposed by @David_Karr quite interesting:

Hierarchical fluent builder api with lambdas?

Just for context, my experience with Camunda so far is just reading the documentation and building some samples. In reading the “Fluent Builder API” I found it remarkable (in an unfortunate way) that an api for potentially building hierarchical models is structured linearly. I noticed the attempt to indent some calls differently from others to try to illustrate the hierarchy, but that doesn’t seem very effective to me. I would have expected an api for building hierarchical models would also b…

Java 8 is out of the picture at the moment, though.