Any real world usage example I can use to inspire myself? about spiffworkflow

[daniel-butler]

Did you ever hear anything I’m curious as well? Thank you!

[CGdeepvoice]

Is there any progress on this issue?Thank you!

[Rydra]

@GCdeepvoice @dbutlerdb I've had to fork the project and make some small modifications to make it work to my needs, but the project is great for any business or data project that may require task orchestration (and ofc, python).

Can't show any code due to personal reasons, but on a small project of mine where I required to execute tasks in a specific order and have some conditional branches to execute some task or another depending on a value, I subclassed the SimpleTask and ExclusiveTask (and create serializers for it as explained in the documentation) and attach a function to those tasks (the event system that spiff implements is not enough for me, I had to expand it). Once I had the infrastructure ready, I could create complex workflows quite effortlessly through code (I didn't try to create workflows with json, it's too complex).

So TL;DR: in a world dominated by Java, spiff was the only pure python workflow engine that did the job I needed (and without adding any hard dependencies like django or twisted, giving me freedom). Having said that, the documentation is lackluster and you need to skim the source code over and over to understand every bit of it. It's not very complex though.

Hope it helps!

[dickkniep]

We at TM7 in the Netherlands developed an NLP engine that is usable in the real world i.e. government, banking etc. We use Camunda modeler to model the process and have developed many BPMN modules to perform various tasks. Spiffworkflow works nicely and gives us enough flexibility to perform the different tasks.

[calexh-sar]

@Rydra, @daniel-butlerm @CGdeepvoice and @dickkniep I am with Sartography and we just released Version 1.0 which includes updates to the [readme docs](https://spiffworkflow.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ if you are still interested.

[calexh-sar]

Closing this issue due to age and lack of response.