Activiti Cycle added 'createNewEmptyArtifact'-method to RepositoryConnector-Interface.

modules/activiti-cycle/src/main/java/org/activiti/cycle/RepositoryConnector.java

@@ -79,6 +79,20 @@ public interface RepositoryConnector {
   public RepositoryArtifact createArtifactFromContentRepresentation(String parentFolderId, String artifactName, String artifactType,
           String contentRepresentationName, Content artifactContent) throws RepositoryNodeNotFoundException;
 
+  /**
+   * create a new {@link RepositoryArtifact} with no content.
+   * 
+   * 
+   * @param parentFolderId
+   *          the id of the parent {@link RepositoryFolder}
+   * @param artifactName
+   *          name of the new {@link RepositoryArtifact}
+   * @param artifactType
+   *          type of the new {@link RepositoryArtifact}
+   * 
+   */
+  public RepositoryArtifact createEmptyArtifact(String parentFolderId, String artifactName, String artifactType) throws RepositoryNodeNotFoundException;;
+
   /**
    * create a new subfolder in the given folder
    */

modules/activiti-cycle/src/main/java/org/activiti/cycle/impl/connector/AbstractRepositoryConnector.java

@@ -84,8 +84,27 @@ public abstract class AbstractRepositoryConnector implements RepositoryConnector
     if (value == null) {
       return null;
     }
+    if (value instanceof String) {
+      if (String.class.equals(castTo)) {
         return (T) value;
       }
+      if (Boolean.class.equals(castTo)) {
+        return (T) Boolean.valueOf((String) value);
+      }
+      if (Integer.class.equals(castTo)) {
+        return (T) Integer.valueOf((String) value);
+      }
+      if (Float.class.equals(castTo)) {
+        return (T) Float.valueOf((String) value);
+      }
+      if (Long.class.equals(castTo)) {
+        return (T) Long.valueOf((String) value);
+      }
+      throw new RuntimeException("Cannot cast connector configuration value of type 'String' for key '" + key + "' to class '" + castTo);
+    } else {
+      return (T) value;
+    }
+  }
 
   protected void setConfigValue(String key, String value) {
     configurationValues.put(key, value);

modules/activiti-cycle/src/main/java/org/activiti/cycle/impl/connector/fs/FileSystemConnector.java

@@ -201,6 +201,12 @@ public class FileSystemConnector extends AbstractFileSystemBasedRepositoryConnec
     return folder;
   }
 
+  public RepositoryArtifact createEmptyArtifact(String parentFolderId, String artifactName, String artifactType) throws RepositoryNodeNotFoundException {
+    Content emptyContent = new Content();
+    emptyContent.setValue("");
+    return createArtifact(parentFolderId, artifactName, artifactType, emptyContent);
+  }
+
   public RepositoryArtifact createArtifact(String parentFolderId, String artifactName, String artifactType, Content artifactContent)
           throws RepositoryNodeNotFoundException {
     File newFile = new File(getFileFromId(parentFolderId), artifactName);

modules/activiti-cycle/src/main/java/org/activiti/cycle/impl/connector/signavio/SignavioConnector.java

@@ -601,6 +601,10 @@ public class SignavioConnector extends AbstractRepositoryConnector implements Si
     }
   }
 
+  public RepositoryArtifact createEmptyArtifact(String parentFolderId, String artifactName, String artifactType) throws RepositoryNodeNotFoundException {
+    return createArtifactFromJSON(parentFolderId, artifactName, artifactType, "{}");
+  }
+
   public RepositoryArtifact createArtifact(String parentFolderId, String artifactName, String artifactType, Content artifactContent)
           throws RepositoryNodeNotFoundException {
     // TODO: Add handling of different artifact types!

modules/activiti-cycle/src/main/java/org/activiti/cycle/impl/connector/view/TagConnector.java

@@ -70,6 +70,10 @@ public class TagConnector implements RepositoryConnector {
     return tagFolderList;
   }
   
+  public RepositoryArtifact createEmptyArtifact(String parentFolderId, String artifactName, String artifactType) throws RepositoryNodeNotFoundException {
+    throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Cannot create artifact in TagConnector, use real RepositoryConnector istead.");
+  }
+
   public RepositoryNode getRepositoryNode(String id) throws RepositoryNodeNotFoundException {
     return getRepositoryFolder(id);
   }