IBM BPM - Javascript trigger delay

Question

for those who know Javascript and IBM BPM, I need to know how to delay the execution of the trigger below, represented by the IBM BPM code this.context.trigger();.

The code is actually working, except for the delay which is not considered in my code.

Can you please help me? Thanks a lot

var _this = this;

function myFunction() {
setTimeout(myFunction, 10000);
_this.context.trigger();
}

myFunction();

Answer 1

I believe you are mistakenly thinking that setTimeout is a sync function, like sleep in other languages, but in javascript setTimeout is Async and calls its first parameter after a delay of 10000

you are calling myFunction outside which calls _this.context.trigger immediately then once every 10000. rewrite your function to this code in order to work.

function myFunction() {
   this.context.trigger();
}
setTimeout(myFunction.bind(this), 10000);

Answer 2

maybe this could work

var _this = this;

function myFunction() {
    _this.context.trigger();
}

setTimeout(myFunction, 10000);

Answer 3

setTimeout is not a sleep() function. It does not pause execution whenever it is called. It schedules a given callback to be executed after a timeout. The correct usage would be:

function myFunction(){
    // Do something
}

setTimeout(myFunction, 1000) // Call myFunction in 1000 milliseconds

Answer 4

In IBM BPM if you want to set sleep, then please try below code directly in the server script block.

java.lang.Thread.sleep(milliseconds); (or)

java.lang.Thread.currentThread().sleep(milliseconds);