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Start a new Instance via REST using process-instances

jaco1 — Sun, 21 Apr 2019 11:56:40 GMT

Hi all. I am new to the forum. I have a question about the json structure when starting a new instance of an process using the REST API. It states you send in the instance variables using a name / value pair. But you are not able to change the name parameter. Lets say you have 3 parameters then the

Re: Start a new Instance via REST using process-instances

mdtabrezmca — Mon, 22 Apr 2019 04:57:34 GMT

Hello,

i guess you have misunderstood it here variables is kind of HashMap which holds key="name" and value="value" so you are adding the key and value pairs to the HashMap with variables names and its vallues. important here is the name property should be unique else it will get overridden.

I hope this explaination is helpful to you.

Re: Start a new Instance via REST using process-instances

jaco1 — Mon, 22 Apr 2019 09:27:04 GMT

Hi. thanks for the reply. So this method to add 3 variables is correct even if postman says the json format is not correct as the name and value tags are there 3 times.

{

"processDefinitionId":"LoanProcess:1:35",

"businessKey":"LoanProcess",

"variables": [

{

"name":"income",

"value": 50000,

"name":"loanAmount",

"value": 20000 ,

"name":"limitAmount",

"value": 5000

}

]

}