REST API additions

[jtulley]

Hi all,

I'm new to the activiti community.  The company I work for intends on making heavy use of Activiti, via the REST api.

Previous to using the REST api, we were calling TasksService directly, and doing calls to createTaskQuery.  Within that, we were using various task query methods that do not seem to exist in the rest api:

processInstanceIdIn
taskVariableValueLikeIgnoreCase
taskCategory

Is there any particular reason that these were not implemented, and would anybody be opposed to us submitting pull requests to add them?

Jeff Tulley

[gdharley]

Hey Jeff, can't speak to the powers in control of pull requests these days, but the taskCategory API would certainly be useful.
Categories are under utilized within the engine and actually adding Rest API to support them would likely increase their use.

[jtulley]

It turns out that category is implemented as of 9/6/2016, and documented in the user guide in git, but not in the user guide that is published to the web.

I added the other things I mentioned in my original message, and the PRs were accepted quite responsively.