Dynamically load flow definitions from the registry

[rszeto]

Hello all,
I have been trying to find a solution for a POC that I am doing with webflow. I need to dynamically register and unregister flow definitions which are loaded during runtime. The only solutions seems to be:
1) Create a custom registry
2) Create an empty registry and then register/unregister FlowDefinitionHolders as needed.

What is the recommended way of solving this problem?

Thanks,
Rick

Edit: Looks like there was a previous thread regarding the same issue (i.e. customizing the flow registry), but there was no answers to it.
http://forum.springsource.org/showth...light=registry

[lola]

hi,

did you found a solution for this? i have the same problem.

thanks,
laura

[a_fitz]

I'm trying to do this as well. I've dug through the SWF source and the IOC bean docs for Spring.
The WebFlow FlowRegistry does not provide any method for unregistering a flow. It would seem the intention is that the registry is completely re-instantiated in the ApplicationContext if flow definitions need to be updated. Can any developers from the SWF project comment on this?

The best approach I have come up with so far is to extend the FlowRegistryFactoryBean with additional methods to retrieve flow definitions from an external source. I have not however figured out how to plug this into the IOC container so that, for instance, a new FlowRegistry bean could be instantiated on-request. This approach would also require incoming requests to be queued in the FlowHandlerMapping while the FlowRegistry is rebuilt; there does not appear to be a provision for this either.

Comments welcomed.