From 7e38588752e27022562b9cf2857047ecc2332eef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gabriele Cardosi <gabriele.cardosi@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2024 12:38:29 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [incubator-kie-issues#1497] Defining
 NodeInstanceContainer.getSerializableNodeInstances to be used during
 serialization (#6116)

Co-authored-by: Gabriele-Cardosi <gabriele.cardosi@ibm.com>
---
 .../kie/api/runtime/process/NodeInstanceContainer.java | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kie-api/src/main/java/org/kie/api/runtime/process/NodeInstanceContainer.java b/kie-api/src/main/java/org/kie/api/runtime/process/NodeInstanceContainer.java
index f8a749bc758..c8915cc1e34 100644
--- a/kie-api/src/main/java/org/kie/api/runtime/process/NodeInstanceContainer.java
+++ b/kie-api/src/main/java/org/kie/api/runtime/process/NodeInstanceContainer.java
@@ -34,6 +34,16 @@ public interface NodeInstanceContainer {
      */
     Collection<NodeInstance> getNodeInstances();
 
+    /**
+     * Returns all node instances that are currently active
+     * within this container and are serializable
+     *
+     * @return the list of serializable node instances currently active
+     */
+    default Collection<NodeInstance> getSerializableNodeInstances() {
+        return getNodeInstances(); // defaulting to getNodeInstances to avoid breaking
+    }
+
     /**
      * Returns the node instance with the given id, or <code>null</code>
      * if the node instance cannot be found.