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Workflow REST Api and Workflow Content

conte73 — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 09:03:57 GMT

Hi, I am developing a REST client to Alfresco workflow. I already access task instance details trough: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Workflow_REST_API#Get_Task_InstanceNow i want to get the content associated to the workflow instance. Is it possible? Can someone point me to the api (mabe CMIS?) that

Re: Workflow REST Api and Workflow Content

gavinc — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 22:57:15 GMT

First of all you'll need to find the 'package' nodeRef for the workflow instance by using the http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Workflow_REST_API#Get_Workflow_Instance API.

Once you have that you can use the Alfresco repository REST APIs or the CMIS REST APIs to retrieve the children of the nodeRef.

Re: Workflow REST Api and Workflow Content

conte73 — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 09:59:43 GMT

Thank you: i did so and it worked.
more detaily given the answer to the GetTaskInstances call


{
   "data": 
   [
      {
         "id": "jbpm$2",
          …         
,
         "workflowInstance": 
         {
             "id": "jbpm$1",
             ….
             "context": "workspace:\/\/SpacesStore\/e4a4902c-562d-4451-8148-91f6d763bc25",
             "package": "workspace:\/\/SpacesStore\/20329587-3d2f-4823-814a-fdf26628d5f0",
             …
        }      
   ]
}
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I get the package element from "workflowInstance" and then i call the cmis api http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/CMIS_Web_Scripts_Reference#Get_Folder_Children_.28getChildren.29:


/service/cmis/s/SpacesStore/i/20329587-3d2f-4823-814a-fdf26628d5f0/children
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The answer is an xml where i can find the url for downloading the content:


<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app"
   xmlns:cmisra="http://docs.oasis-open.org/ns/cmis/restatom/200908/"
   xmlns:cmis="http://docs.oasis-open.org/ns/cmis/core/200908/" xmlns:alf="http://www.alfresco.org"
   xmlns:opensearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/">
        …
        <entry>
                …
                <content type="application/octet-stream"
                       src="http://localhost:9090/alfresco/service/cmis/s/workspace:SpacesStore/i/78e7f974-a0df-46fe-923f-8de5748c3502/content.out" />
                …
        </entry>
</feed>
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