topic How to start process instance using REST API ? in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-start-process-instance-using-rest-api/m-p/164180#M117939 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I have created following class.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I m getting error forbidden and also i tried with processdefinition key.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>plz&nbsp; help me. I am new to REST API.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><BR /><BR /><SPAN>import java.io.BufferedReader;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>import java.io.IOException;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>import java.io.InputStreamReader;</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>import org.apache.http.auth.AuthScope;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>import org.apache.http.auth.UsernamePasswordCredentials;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>import org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>import org.apache.http.entity.StringEntity;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN> </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>public class Rest {</SPAN><BR /><SPAN> </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;public static void main(String[] args) {</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; try {</SPAN><BR /><SPAN> </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;DefaultHttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;httpclient.getCredentialsProvider().setCredentials(</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; new AuthScope("localhost", 8080), </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; new UsernamePasswordCredentials("kermit", "kermit"));</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;HttpPost hp = new HttpPost("</SPAN><A href="http://localhost:8080/activiti-rest/service/process-instance" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://localhost:8080/activiti-rest/service/process-instance</A><SPAN>");</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;hp.setEntity(new StringEntity("{\"processDefinitionId\":\"reviewSaledLead\"}", "UTF-8"));</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;HttpResponse processResponse = httpclient.execute(hp);</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;System.out.println(IOUtils.toString(processResponse.getEntity().getContent()));</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;httpclient.getConnectionManager().shutdown();&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; }</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; catch(Exception ae)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; {</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; }</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; }</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>}</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 10 Oct 2013 13:07:08 GMT amp 2013-10-10T13:07:08Z How to start process instance using REST API ? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-start-process-instance-using-rest-api/m-p/164180#M117939 I have created following class.I m getting error forbidden and also i tried with processdefinition key.plz&nbsp; help me. I am new to REST API.import java.io.BufferedReader;import java.io.IOException;import java.io.InputStreamReader;import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;import org.apache.http.HttpResponse Thu, 10 Oct 2013 13:07:08 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-start-process-instance-using-rest-api/m-p/164180#M117939 amp 2013-10-10T13:07:08Z Re: How to start process instance using REST API ? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-start-process-instance-using-rest-api/m-p/164181#M117940 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>following testcase could help you:</SPAN><BR /><A href="https://github.com/Activiti/Activiti/blob/master/modules/activiti-rest/src/test/java/org/activiti/rest/service/api/runtime/ProcessInstanceResourceTest.java" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://github.com/Activiti/Activiti/blob/master/modules/activiti-rest/src/test/java/org/activiti/rest/service/api/runtime/ProcessInstanceResourceTest.java</A><BR /><BR /><SPAN>especially:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>org.activiti.rest.service.BaseRestTestCase#getAuthenticatedClient</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Martin</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 16 Oct 2013 19:17:19 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-start-process-instance-using-rest-api/m-p/164181#M117940 martin_grofcik 2013-10-16T19:17:19Z