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Workflow definition row Publish and Unpublish, editor Unpublish, and Update references fail against actual Core: three request-DTO endpoints reject bodyless POSTs with HTTP 415, and editor Unpublish expects a wrapper although Core returns the bare definition. Send empty JSON objects for those three typed actions, consume the real retract response, and correct the preview client response types for retract and version revert. Generic HTTP, multipart uploads, cancellation and the bodyless revert request retain their contracts.

Extend the existing real-server settings check to verify dedicated publish/retract/reference-update/revert behavior and response models, and add an editor unpublish browser regression. Run settings and BPMN round-trip checks in existing paired-container CI. The BPMN check now uses a valid exclusive gateway: supported JavaScript conditions survive import/export, while XPath is refused with the current code and flow ID. This fixture passes both the initial Core baseline and current main, which correctly rejects conditions attached directly to start events. Update the action permissions and BPMN documentation accordingly.

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  • 294 unit tests, 28 hosting tests, 50 browser cases; ESLint, TypeScript, translation/module checks and production builds passed.
  • Real Core dedicated actions and response models passed. Actual browser creation, toolbox editing, autosave/reload, row/editor Publish and Unpublish, Run, Finished, journal and completed activity record passed with zero incidents, browser exceptions or HTTP 5xx. Authentication, invalid-password recovery, protected deep links, sign-out and Dutch persistence passed.
  • Real BPMN import/export/refusal and true/false runtime routing passed against both the original baseline and current Core main a791eec9ba92833241a95c987d76c85b53c15f88. All temporary definitions and instances are cleaned up.
  • The complete paired verifier and actual browser journey passed on Node 22.23.4 against Release-published applications in two Docker runtime harnesses. These local harnesses reuse verified runtime bases; required source CI builds the full production Dockerfiles.

Related: #8859.

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  • New Features

    • BPMN imports now preserve supported expression conditions and provide a clear explanation and affected flow ID when a condition language is unsupported.
    • Workflow definitions now support improved handling of publishing, retracting, reverting versions, and updating references.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Retracting a published workflow now correctly updates its status to Draft and removes the Run option.

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The changes update workflow-definition API requests and response types, adjust editor unpublish state handling, and expand workflow-action and BPMN condition round-trip checks. The paired-container script now runs both round-trip checks.

Changes: Workflow-definition actions

Layer / File(s) Summary
Workflow action contracts and editor state
studio/react/packages/api-client/src/endpoints/workflow-definitions.ts, studio/react/dotnet/modules/Elsa.ReactStudio.WorkflowDefinitions/Client/pages/editor-page.tsx, studio/react/tests/parity.spec.ts
Publish, retract, and reference-update requests send empty bodies. Retract and revert use updated response types. The editor reads publication state from the retract result’s isPublished field. The parity test covers unpublishing and checks the resulting editor state.
Workflow action round-trip checks
studio/react/scripts/test-settings-roundtrip.mjs, studio/react/scripts/test-container-pair.mjs, studio/react/docs/activity-settings.md
The settings check exercises publish, retract, reference update, and version revert. The paired-container script runs the settings and BPMN round-trip checks. The documentation describes these actions and the required permissions.

BPMN condition round-trip

Layer / File(s) Summary
Condition round-trip validation
studio/react/scripts/test-bpmn-roundtrip.mjs, studio/react/docs/bpmn.md
The test checks that JavaScript conditions retain their language and expression through import and export. It checks that XPath conditions return bpmn.import.condition-language-unsupported with the Flow element ID. The documentation describes supported and unsupported condition languages and notes older-server behavior.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Possibly related issues

  • elsa-workflows/elsa-core#8898 — The tests cover JavaScript condition round-tripping and structured rejection of unsupported XPath conditions.
  • elsa-workflows/elsa-core#8927 — The BPMN round-trip checks exercise condition preservation within the designer conformance scope, but do not implement the designer contract or modules.
Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to adae2

The validation flow needs a small ordering fix before merging; this does not indicate a production runtime failure.

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@greptileai Please review pushed head 1d15e64. This two-file acceptance correction follows current Core support: preserve a supported JavaScript true condition through import/export, then reject XPath with bpmn.import.condition-language-unsupported and Flow element ID. Real-server roundtrip and cleanup passed; baseline294unit/28host/49browser checks passed. Please also inspect cleanup and XML assertions.

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RetriggerView in GreptileConfidence Score: 5/5

[Medium impact] No outstanding blocking findings remain. The current fixture addresses the previously reported failure, and no merge-blocking issues were identified.

Summary

Corrects workflow action requests and response types, adds real-server checks, and updates the BPMN fixture and documentation.

  • Studio’s publish and retract actions now match Core’s request and response shapes.
  • Real-server checks now cover workflow actions and reusable-workflow references.
  • BPMN server checks distinguish supported conditions from refused languages.

The previously reported settings-check issue is addressed. No new actionable issues were found in the changes since the previous review.

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@sfmskywalker sfmskywalker changed the title test(studio): align BPMN acceptance with Core conditions fix(studio): honor workflow action contracts and verify real-server flows Oct 22, 2026

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@greptileai Please review pushed head 0586e41. Final scope fixes workflow publish/retract/update-references JSON action requests, accurate retract/revert response types and editor Unpublish response consumption. Real action acceptance and paired-container checks cover the contracts; the prior current-Core BPMN condition correction remains. Both DTO-less revert/cancel retain their valid bodyless requests. Please review cleanup, CI wiring and the bare-response editor regression. The previous score at 1d15 is historical.

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- Around line 57-58: Update the permission list in the rerun instructions for
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@greptileai Please review pushed head 3c2ceef. The only new change lists the exact workflows/definitions/versions:revert permission in the real-server check instructions. I verified the advisory fix and live thread is resolved. Product code/tests/CI scripts are byte-identical to 0586, which passed294unit/28host/50browser and actual Core UI/action/BPMN branch checks. Please confirm the final exact head.

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APPROVE + HIGH @ 3c2ceef

Transparent author self-review under the task owner's standing self-review/self-merge authority; this is not an independent approval.

Reviewed the typed action request/response contracts against actual Core endpoints, editor Unpublish state handling, regression coverage, cleanup and existing CI integration. Only Publish, Retract and Update references request DTOs receive empty JSON objects; valid bodyless endpoints and generic/multipart HTTP behavior are preserved. Retract and revert response types match actual Core responses. The editor consumes the bare retract model. The real-server checks cover action persistence and BPMN supported-condition preservation/unsupported-language refusal; paired-container CI runs them after readiness. The final permission documentation matches Core.

Validation: 294 unit, 28 hosting and 50 browser cases passed. The rebuilt actual Core UI passed definition-row and editor Publish/Unpublish, save/reload, republish/run/Finished/journal/execution-record checks, with zero incidents, browser exceptions or HTTP 5xx. Actual BPMN true/false routing took only its expected branch. Paired source-host verification passed; temporary definitions/instances were removed and owned hosts stopped. Product-tested 0586e41 differs from this head only in the corrected permission documentation.

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APPROVE + HIGH @ b59535b

Transparent author self-review under the task owner's standing self-review/self-merge authority; this is not an independent approval.

Reviewed the typed action request/response contracts against actual Core endpoints, editor Unpublish state handling, regression coverage, cleanup and existing CI integration. Only Publish, Retract and Update references request DTOs receive empty JSON objects; valid bodyless endpoints and generic/multipart HTTP behavior are preserved. Retract and revert response types match actual Core responses. The editor consumes the bare retract model. The real-server checks cover action persistence and BPMN supported-condition preservation/unsupported-language refusal; paired-container CI runs them after readiness. The final permission documentation matches Core.

Validation: 294 unit, 28 hosting and 50 browser cases passed. The rebuilt actual Core UI passed definition-row and editor Publish/Unpublish, save/reload, republish/run/Finished/journal/execution-record checks, with zero incidents, browser exceptions or HTTP 5xx. Actual BPMN true/false routing took only its expected branch. Paired source-host verification passed; temporary definitions/instances were removed and owned hosts stopped. Product/browser-tested 0586e41 differs from this head in permission documentation and the valid exclusive-gateway BPMN fixture. That corrected fixture passes both baseline and latest Core main a791eec, with XPath rejection still on a valid graph; true/false runtime routing also passes latest Core. Offline review independently checked XML references, default semantics, assertions and cleanup without findings.

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Confidence Score: 5/5

No actionable issues were identified in head b59535bc3fd72a6495c4e514f3db3878f73419de.

The request/response contract changes are consistent with the stated Core behavior, the editor now consumes the bare retract model, and the browser regression exercises the published-to-draft UI transition. The real-server checks assert the action results and clean up temporary definitions; the paired-container workflow runs both checks against its reference server before the browser smoke test. The BPMN fixture uses a valid exclusive-gateway flow and checks preservation of supported conditions and structured refusal for an unsupported language.

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🟡 Minor · Make the fixture stale before asserting reference updates. · test-settings-roundtrip.mjs:49-53

studio/react/scripts/test-settings-roundtrip.mjs:49-53
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Make the fixture stale before asserting reference updates.

The fixture does not enable AutoUpdateConsumingWorkflows, and it calls updateReferences while version 2 is still current. The updater therefore returns no updated workflows, while the current assertion accepts an empty result.

Suggested fix
-  const model = { name, variables: [], inputs: [], outputs: [], outcomes: [], customProperties: {}, options: { usableAsActivity: true }, root: { id: 'child-root', type: 'Elsa.Sequence', version: 1, activities: [] } };
+  const model = { name, variables: [], inputs: [], outputs: [], outcomes: [], customProperties: {}, options: { usableAsActivity: true, autoUpdateConsumingWorkflows: true }, root: { id: 'child-root', type: 'Elsa.Sequence', version: 1, activities: [] } };
...
-  const updated = await client.workflowDefinitions.updateReferences(first.definitionId);
-  assert(Array.isArray(updated.affectedWorkflows));
   const reverted = await client.workflowDefinitions.revert(first.definitionId, 1);
   assert.equal(reverted.definitionId, first.definitionId);
   assert.equal(reverted.version, 3);
+  const updated = await client.workflowDefinitions.updateReferences(first.definitionId);
+  assert(updated.affectedWorkflows.includes(parent.name));
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Update the test fixture to enable auto-updating consuming workflows, then call
revert before updateReferences so the parent workflow is stale; assert that
updated.affectedWorkflows includes the parent workflow rather than only checking
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🟡 Minor · Document the registered workflow permissions. · activity-settings.md:55-60

studio/react/docs/activity-settings.md:55-60
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Document the registered workflow permissions.

The Core save endpoint requires workflows/definitions:write, not create. The update-references endpoint also requires the already-listed workflows/definitions:publish permission; it has no separate update-references permission. Users who follow the current guidance can omit write, so the settings check can fail on its first save.

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-then run `pnpm test:settings-server`. The test needs workflow create, publish, view,
-retract, update-references and delete permissions, plus
+then run `pnpm test:settings-server`. The test needs workflow write, publish, view,
+retract and delete permissions, plus
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Review comment at @studio/react/docs/activity-settings.md around lines 55 - 60:
Update the permission list in the test guidance to require workflow write,
publish, view, retract, and delete permissions, plus
workflows/definitions/versions:revert. Remove create and update-references as
separate permissions; the save endpoint requires write, and publish covers
updating references.

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Review comments at @studio/react/docs/activity-settings.md:
- Around line 55-60: Update the permission list in the test guidance to require
workflow write, publish, view, retract, and delete permissions, plus
workflows/definitions/versions:revert. Remove create and update-references as
separate permissions; the save endpoint requires write, and publish covers
updating references.

Review comments at @studio/react/scripts/test-settings-roundtrip.mjs:
- Around line 49-53: Update the test fixture to enable auto-updating consuming
workflows, then call revert before updateReferences so the parent workflow is
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Elsa 3 Code Review: REQUEST_CHANGES + HIGH @ b59535b

Code Review, Round 1/6

The contract fixes are correct. Two small but real issues remain in the docs and in the real-server check, both raised by CodeRabbit outside the diff.

Contract fixes (verified against Core at this head)

  • Publish, Retract and UpdateReferences are ElsaEndpoint<Request, ...>, so a bodyless POST gets 415. Sending {} is the right fix. Version/Revert.cs is ElsaEndpointWithoutRequest, so leaving revert bodyless is correct too.
  • Retract returns a bare LinkedWorkflowDefinitionModel. Typing retract as WorkflowDefinition and reading result.isPublished in the editor fixes the false Unpublish error (the old code read result.workflowDefinition and threw after a successful retract).
  • RevertVersion returns WorkflowDefinitionSummary.FromDefinition(...), so the new WorkflowDefinitionSummary type for revert matches.
  • Publish still returns the wrapper Response(WorkflowDefinition, AlreadyPublished, ...), and the client type is unchanged. Good.
  • TypeScript passes, so no caller depended on the old retract or revert shapes.

The new browser regression for editor Unpublish and the extended real-server check are good additions. Wiring the settings and BPMN scripts into the paired-container run means they now actually run in CI.

Blocking

  1. Wrong permission list in studio/react/docs/activity-settings.md (around lines 58-60). Post/Endpoint.cs requires workflows/definitions:write (CoreVerbs.Write), not create. UpdateReferences requires workflows/definitions:publish, and no update-references permission exists. Someone who sets up a least-privilege user from this text will fail on the first save. Please list write, publish, view, retract and delete, plus workflows/definitions/versions:revert.
  2. The update-references check can't fail (test-settings-roundtrip.mjs). updateReferences runs while version 2 is still the latest, so no consumer is stale and affectedWorkflows is empty. Array.isArray passes on an empty array, so this only proves the 415 is gone, not that the action works. Please call it after revert (which creates version 3), so the parent's reference to version 2 is stale, and assert that affectedWorkflows contains the parent. If the updater needs autoUpdateConsumingWorkflows on the child for that, set it in the fixture.

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  • CodeRabbit inline thread on the revert permission: resolved at 3c2ceef; CodeRabbit confirmed.
  • CodeRabbit's two outside-diff comments on review 5610785599 are the two blocking items above. I agree with both.
  • Greptile reported no actionable issues at this head.

CI is green. Once the two items are fixed, I expect to approve in the next round.

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R2 at adae2be. Fixes the two R1 items: documented write/publish/view/retract/delete plus workflows/definitions/versions:revert (dropped create and update-references), and moved updateReferences after revert with a parent-in-affectedWorkflows assertion.

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Elsa 3 Code Review: REQUEST_CHANGES + HIGH @ adae2be

Code Review, Round 2/6

Delta reviewed: b59535bc..adae2be9 (2 files: studio/react/docs/activity-settings.md, studio/react/scripts/test-settings-roundtrip.mjs). Nothing else changed.

R1 item 1 (permissions in docs): resolved

Checked against the Core endpoints at this head:

  • Save: Post/Endpoint.cs requires workflows/definitions + CoreVerbs.Write. Correct.
  • Publish and UpdateReferences: both RequirePermission(WorkflowPermissions.Definitions, "publish") (Publish/Endpoint.cs, UpdateReferences/Endpoint.cs:21). There is no update-references verb, so listing publish covers it. Correct.
  • Retract "retract", GetByDefinitionId/List View, Delete Delete, Revert WorkflowPermissions.DefinitionVersions + "revert". All match.

R1 item 2 (updateReferences check): not resolved, the new assertion cannot pass on a real server

The order is right now and the assertion can fail, but it will fail every time against Core:

  1. revert(first.definitionId, 1) goes through WorkflowDefinitionPublisher.RevertVersionAsync, which saves version 3 as an unpublished draft (GetDraftAsync on the unpublished v1, then SaveAsync; nothing publishes it).
  2. UpdateReferences loads VersionOptions.Latest, which is that draft, and passes it to WorkflowReferenceUpdater.
  3. In UpdateWorkflowAsync, willTargetBePublished = initialPublicationState.GetValueOrDefault(target.DefinitionId, target.IsPublished). The child is not a consumer, so this is target.IsPublished == false, and the method returns null for the parent.
  4. affectedWorkflows is [], so includes(parent.name) throws.

CI confirms it. frontend-and-host fails at "Verify the paired reference server and Preview containers": AssertionError: assert(updated.affectedWorkflows.includes(parent.name)) at test-settings-roundtrip.mjs:54. The local settings-roundtrip.test.ts (2 passed) never talks to a live server, so it cannot catch this.

Publishing v3 right before updateReferences (as CodeRabbit suggests) does not fix it either. PublishAsync sends WorkflowDefinitionPublished, and the UpdateConsumingWorkflows handler runs the same updater straight away (that is where Publish's consumingWorkflowCount comes from). So the parent is already moved to v3 and the explicit call returns [] again.

Suggested fix: get to a published child version first, then create a consumer pinned to an older version, then call update-references. For example: revert to v1, publish the child (v3 published), save the parent with workflowDefinitionVersionId: second.id (v2) as it does now, run the parent publish and retract checks, then updateReferences(first.definitionId) and assert affectedWorkflows.includes(parent.name). Better still, also reload the parent and assert the child activity now points at the published v3 id. Run pnpm test:settings-server against a real dev server before you push.

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  • CodeRabbit (test-settings-roundtrip.mjs:54): the diagnosis is right, but the suggested fix is not enough (see above). Replied in the thread.
  • Greptile P1 (test-settings-roundtrip.mjs): the same finding, and valid. Replied in the thread.
  • The author notes on the two R1 items: item 1 is confirmed and item 2 is disputed. Replied in each thread.

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frontend-and-host: failure (the assertion above). ubuntu-latest was still running when this review was written. Everything else is green (CodeQL neutral).

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R3 at 470285d. Restructured the settings check so the child is reverted and published (v3) before the parent is saved pinned to v2; updateReferences then lists the parent and a reload asserts the child activity points at v3. pnpm test:settings-server passed against a real Development server.

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Elsa 3 Code Review: APPROVE + HIGH @ 470285d

Code Review, Round 3/6

Delta reviewed: adae2be9..470285dd. One commit, one file: studio/react/scripts/test-settings-roundtrip.mjs. Nothing else changed.

R2 blocker (updateReferences check): resolved

  • The child is reverted to v1 and then published, so v3 is published (asserted: isPublished, version === 3, and latest id). This happens before any consumer exists, so the publish handler (UpdateConsumingWorkflows) has nothing to update.
  • The parent is then saved pinned to v2 (workflowDefinitionVersionId: second.id, version === 2, still asserted after the reload). The v2 descriptor is still found because WorkflowDefinitionActivityProvider lists VersionOptions.All.
  • After the parent publish/retract checks, updateReferences(first.definitionId) now has a real stale reference to fix. The updater sees a published target (v3) and a consumer pinned to v2, so it updates the parent. affectedWorkflows.includes(parent.name) can pass and can fail.
  • The reload asserts the child activity now points at publishedChild.workflowDefinition.id with version === 3. That checks the persisted result, not just the response list.
  • Cleanup is unchanged. The child is registered before the revert, so a failure in revert or publish still deletes it.

R1 item 1 (documented permissions) was already confirmed in R2 and is untouched.

Non-blocking note: offline vitest

settings-roundtrip.test.ts does not test the flow. It runs the real script against one canned response to prove that the original failure is kept when cleanup succeeds or also fails (it stops at 1 !== 2). The flow itself is covered by the paired-container step against the real reference server. Copying the sequence into a mock would only restate the fixture and would not catch a Core regression, so it does not need to change.

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  • CodeRabbit (line 54): the author replied and CodeRabbit confirmed the fix and resolved the thread.
  • Greptile P1: the author replied, Greptile agreed, and its summary for this head is 5/5 with no findings.
  • No new bot threads on 470285dd.

CI on 470285dd

All checks are green. frontend-and-host passes, including the paired-container step (PASS: actual Core API round-trips ... dedicated publish, retract, revert and update-references actions ...).

— Code Review (Elsa 3), via Elsa Review

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sfmskywalker merged commit ba08f67 into main Oct 22, 2026
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