topic Re: Task type: Camel or other? in Alfresco Archive

Task type: Camel or other?

davidcarrico — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 22:45:52 GMT

If i'd like my process to execute a REST GET action to some endpoint, what is the ideal Activiti mechanism to use? Should I use Camel (and execute the REST call from there)? The Web Service Task type doesn't seem viable here, as I will be calling REST interface, not a web service.I don't see this ex

Re: Task type: Camel or other?

jbarrez — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 16:20:40 GMT

you'd use a regular Java service task and use HttpClient (or if you're using Spring the RestTemplate)

Re: Task type: Camel or other?

davidcarrico — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 00:37:47 GMT

Thanks for this.

Re: Task type: Camel or other?

davidcarrico — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 00:39:04 GMT

Actually - one follow-on question: could I use a javascript Script task type? Using XMLHttpRequest, etc?

Re: Task type: Camel or other?

jbarrez — Sat, 28 Feb 2015 09:06:04 GMT

You could, although im not sure XmlHttpRequest is available, but you could use HttpClient or even plain java.net.URL.