topic Re: support JSON data type in Alfresco Archive

support JSON data type

chuck_irvine — Tue, 01 Mar 2016 14:02:30 GMT

It would be great if a JSON data type could be supported somehow at the GUI layer. Single valued variables are too limiting in the context of a large quantity of business data. For example, I'd like to be able to store the JSON data returned by a REST API call. Is this currently possible in any way?

Re: support JSON data type

jbarrez — Tue, 01 Mar 2016 21:26:43 GMT

a JSON variable type was added in recent releases of the engine.
Note sure what you mean with 'at the GUI layer'?

Re: support JSON data type

chuck_irvine — Thu, 03 Mar 2016 15:10:20 GMT

First, I was referring to the latest subscription version. Let me give an example, but I assume that there are more use cases.

Say that I've implemented a "REST call task" from the process modeler "Activities" drop down list. As a result of the task being called, a JSON object is returned to GUI layer. My question is: Can I take that JSON object and store it in a process variable and use individual JSON values (leaf fields) to populate form read-only values?

I see in the GUI for creating new process variables a data type called "group". Might a process variable of this datatype be applicable?

Re: support JSON data type

jbarrez — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 09:36:59 GMT

(Moving to enterprise forum)

The rest call result can indeed be used to store process variables in the process. I even think that's by default, and you do some processing on it.