Question

bug or feature?

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Took me some time to find cause of app behaviour. Should the modeller not warn on not terminating flow?

asked 2016-01-19

Arthur van der Molen

3 answers

Eric Tieniber · Answer 1 · 2016-01-19

I assume you mean terminating the flow inside your loop? You don't need to have a "break" or "continue" in your loop. By default, Mendix interprets that situation as a "continue".

Can you clarify how this behavior caused you a problem?

Nikel Kruizinga · Answer 2 · 2016-01-20

Arthur if the point you are making is that Mendix is inconsistent on requiring an explicit start and termination for a microflow but not for a flow within a loop then you are completely correct that this seems weird. It's nor a bug though, just an odd design decision.

Paul Poetsma · Answer 3 · 2016-01-20

Default development guideline: always terminate explicitly in a loop. The modeler assumes "continue" but I want the developers to take that decision. And assumptions in microflows have to be documented, so why not explicitly terminate the loop. From that point of view I would not mind in the modeler forces you to add a continue of break event.