problems starting a process using rest api

[new1]

Hi,
   I am trying to start a process using the rest api. Here is my code

DefaultHttpClient dhc = new DefaultHttpClient();
dhc.getCredentialsProvider().setCredentials(new AuthScope("localhost", 8080), new UsernamePasswordCredentials("kermit", "kermit"));
HttpPost hp = new HttpPost("http://localhost:8080/activiti-rest/service/runtime/process-instance");
StringEntity se = new StringEntity("{\"processDefinitionId\":\"myProcess:1:1234\"}", "UTF-8");
se.setContentType("application/json");
hp.setEntity(se);
HttpResponse processResponse = dhc.execute(hp);
System.out.println(IOUtils.toString(processResponse.getEntity().getContent()));
dhc.getConnectionManager().shutdown();

i get an error {"errorMessage":"Method Not Allowed", "statusCode":405}

But when I use the same url and test it in postman with basic Authentication it says

{
    "errorMessage":"no deployed process definition found with id 'myProcess:1:1358'.",
    "statusCode": 400
}

Please help. This is an urgent issue. The rest api is not working either way.

[trademak]

You need to add an content type application/json header to your request to prevent a 405 error. Are you sure there's a process definition with that id available in the Activiti Engine?

[carls127]

Sorry, I'm wrong at forum

[new1]

I do have the content-type set to application/json. Here is my part of my xml code
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<definitions id="model" xmlns="http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/20100524/MODEL" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:activiti="http://activiti.org/bpmn" xmlns:bpmndi="http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/20100524/DI" xmlnsmgdc="http://www.omg.org/spec/DD/20100524/DC" xmlnsmgdi="http://www.omg.org/spec/DD/20100524/DI" typeLanguage="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" expressionLanguage="http://www.w3.org/1999/XPath" targetNamespace="http://www.activiti.org/test">
  <process id="myProcess" name="My process" isExecutable="true">
    <serviceTask id="servicetask1" name="javaclass" activiti:async="true" activiti:class="javaclass"></serviceTask>
    <endEvent id="endevent1" name="End"></endEvent>
    <userTask id="usertask2" name="Confirm end of Pipeline" activiti:assignee="kermit">

I wanted to attach a screen shot of my postman call but I couldn't. I tried processDefinitionId, processInstanceId and processInstanceKey with value as myProcess, myProcess:1:1234 and model in my json object but nothing worked. All of these postman calls returned method not allowed, 405 error

[jbarrez]

Your url is wrong.

You need to post to process-instances, with an S at the end.

as per the user guide:

<code>
POST runtime/process-instances
</code>

The 405 is correct, cause POSTing to /process-instance is not allowed (GET is, as it fetched one process instance)