Action result states do not match workflow states

I am trying to programmatically determine which workflow action to
execute in order to transition workflow state for a defect. I use
the following methods to accomplish this task:

IWorkItem.getState2() - to get the id of the current state
IWorkflowInfo.getAllStateIds() - to find the id of target state
IWorkflowInfo.getActionIds(Identifier<IState>) - to get valid
actions in the current state
getActionResultState(Identifier<IWorkflowAction>) - to get the
result state id for each action.

The problem is, the state id from
getActionResultState does not match any
of the state ids from getAllStateIds, so
I am unable to determine the required action.

In fact, none of the action result state ids match any of the state
ids from the getAllStateIds method.

Is this a bug, or is there another way to accomplish this task?

I am trying to programmatically determine which workflow action to
execute in order to transition workflow state for a defect. I use
the following methods to accomplish this task:

IWorkItem.getState2() - to get the id of the current state
IWorkflowInfo.getAllStateIds() - to find the id of target state
IWorkflowInfo.getActionIds(Identifier<IState>) - to get valid
actions in the current state
getActionResultState(Identifier<IWorkflowAction>) - to get the
result state id for each action.

The problem is, the state id from
getActionResultState does not match any
of the state ids from getAllStateIds, so
I am unable to determine the required action.

In fact, none of the action result state ids match any of the state
ids from the getAllStateIds method.

Is this a bug, or is there another way to accomplish this task?

public Identifier<IWorkflowAction> getAction( IWorkItem workItem,

         IWorkflowInfo workflowInfo )

   {

      Identifier<IWorkflowAction> findActionId = null;

      Identifier<IState>[] allStates = workflowInfo.getAllStateIds();

      Identifier<IState> curState = workItem.getState2();



      for (Identifier<IState> stateId : allStates)

      {

         Identifier<IWorkflowAction>[] allActions = workflowInfo

               .getActionIds( curState );



         for (Identifier<IWorkflowAction> actionId : allActions)

         {

            Identifier<IState> resultState = workflowInfo

                  .getActionResultState( actionId );



            if (resultState.equals( stateId ))

            {

               findActionId = actionId;

            }

         }

      }

      

      return findActionId;

   }

The silly method below illustrates the problem, it will
ALWAYS return null:
public Identifier<IWorkflowAction
getAction( IWorkItem workItem,
IWorkflowInfo workflowInfo )
{

I can't see anything obvious in the code. When you print out the states, is there a pattern why they don't match? Originally, states were integers and later changed to strings. There is come compatibility code that transforms identifier like 's2' back to '2'. So If some of the states that are compared have the identifiers 's1, s2, s3' and others '1, 2, 3', this would explain why they never match.

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Regards,
Patrick
Jazz Work Item Team