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POST /runtime/tasks/{taskId}

See original GitHub issue

Using Flowable’s REST API to complete a User task:

curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" 
     -X POST http://admin:test@localhost:8080/flowable-task/process-api/runtime/tasks/1fae489a-070f-11e9-a85e-0242ac110002
     -d "@data-1.json"

data-1.json:

{
  "action" : "complete",
  "variables" : [
    {
        "id": "givenName",
        "name": "Given Name",
        "type": "string",
        "value": "Rob"
    },
    {
        "id": "familyName",
        "name": "Family Name",
        "type": "string",
        "value": "Ferguson"
    },
    {
        "id": "employeeNumber",
        "name": "Employee Number",
        "type": "integer",
        "value": 123456
    },
    {
        "id": "fromDate",
        "name": "From Date",
        "type": "date",
        "value": "2018-12-21T00:00:00+00:00"
    },
    {
        "id": "toDate",
        "name": "To Date",
        "type": "date",
        "value": "2019-01-07T00:00:00+00:00"
    }
  ]
}

Returns:

Status: 200 OK

Despite returning OK it doesn’t appear to save the User task’s form data:

blank-form

See: https://robferguson.org/blog/2018/12/24/flowable-rest-api-part-1/

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Created 5 years ago
Comments:22 (8 by maintainers)

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Robinyocommented, Jan 10, 2020

After a bit more trial and error I got it to work 😃

Sample payload:

{
  "action": "complete",
  "assignee": "rob.ferguson",
  "formDefinitionId": "c064ca14-3298-11ea-85ef-0242ac110004",
  "variables": [
    {
      "id": "employeeNumber",
      "name": "employeeNumber",
      "type": "integer",
      "value": 123456
    },
    {
      "id": "givenName",
      "name": "givenName",
      "type": "string",
      "value": "Rob"
    },
    {
      "id": "familyName",
      "name": "familyName",
      "type": "string",
      "value": "Ferguson"
    },
    {
      "id": "fromDate",
      "name": "fromDate",
      "type": "date",
       "value": "2019-12-22T13:00:00.000Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "toDate",
      "name": "toDate",
      "type": "date",
       "value": "2020-01-09T13:00:00.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "outcome": "completed"
}

formDefinitionId is the id attribute returned from GET runtime/tasks/{taskId}/form

Also:

GET runtime/tasks/{formId}/form returns “type”: “text” POST runtime/tasks/{taskId} accepts “type”: “string”

Output:

{
    "message": "Bad request",
    "exception": "Converter can only convert strings"
}

And:

GET runtime/tasks/{formId}/form returns:

        {
            "fieldType": "FormField",
            "id": "employeeNumber",
            "name": "Employee Number",
            "type": "integer",
            "value": null,
            "required": true,
            "readOnly": false,
            "overrideId": true,
            "placeholder": null,
            "layout": null
        }

POST runtime/tasks/{taskId} accepts:

    {
      "id": "employeeNumber",
      "name": "employeeNumber",  // "Employee Number"
      "type": "integer",
      "value": 123456
    }

Output:

{
    "message": "Bad request",
    "exception": "Form field employeeNumber is required, but no value was found"
}

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xcaptaincommented, Jan 7, 2019

@tijsrademakers I tested the latest source code, GET /runtime/tasks/{taskId}/form works fine for active tasks, but for completed tasks this api returns task not found

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