topic Re: Send Attachment in Alfresco Archive

Send Attachment

fedemori — Wed, 07 Aug 2013 14:37:46 GMT

Hi,I'm creating a client to connect to Activiti with REST.I logged in correctly and start the process with variables but I can't send an attachment.Can you help me? This is my code.HttpResponse response = null; String processInstanceId = null; String taskDefinitionKey = null; St

Re: Send Attachment

frederikherema1 — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 08:56:58 GMT

Please add the exception that you're experiencing…

Re: Send Attachment

fedemori — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 14:12:22 GMT

<java>
File test = new File("E:/lecce.doc");

   HttpPost postMethod =
     new HttpPost("http://localhost:8080/activiti-rest/service/task/" + taskId + "/attachment" );

   //FileEntity fileEntity = new FileEntity(test);
   //fileEntity.setContentType(FileUtil.getMimeType(test));
   InputStreamEntity reqEntity = new InputStreamEntity(
           new FileInputStream(test), test.length());


   //reqEntity.setContentEncoding(FileUtil.getMimeType(test));
   reqEntity.setContentType(FileUtil.getMimeType(test));
   reqEntity.setChunked(true);
   postMethod.setEntity(reqEntity);
   response = client.execute(postMethod, localcontext);
</java>
the response send code 405 Method not Allowed

Re: Send Attachment

fedemori — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 08:13:27 GMT

I use Activiti 5.11

<code>
Add attachment to a task
Add an attachment to a task instance

Request: PUT /task/{taskId}/attachment

{}

</code>

Re: Send Attachment

frederikherema1 — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 12:58:50 GMT

You have posted the answer yourself, use PUT instead of POST (hence the 405, method not allowed):
HttpPost postMethod = and
Request: PUT /task/{taskId}/attachment