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/* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ package org.activiti.rest.service.api.legacy.process; import java.util.Map; import org.activiti.engine.ActivitiException; import org.activiti.engine.runtime.ProcessInstance; import org.activiti.rest.common.api.ActivitiUtil; import org.activiti.rest.common.api.SecuredResource; import org.restlet.data.Status; import org.restlet.representation.Representation; import org.restlet.resource.Post; import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode; import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper; /** * @author Tijs Rademakers */ public class StartProcessInstanceResource extends SecuredResource { @Post public StartProcessInstanceResponse startProcessInstance(Representation entity) { try { if (authenticate() == false) return null; String startParams = entity.getText(); JsonNode startJSON = new ObjectMapper().readTree(startParams); String processDefinitionKey = startJSON.path("processDefinitionKey").textValue(); String processDefinitionId = null; if (processDefinitionKey == null) { processDefinitionId = startJSON.path("processDefinitionId").textValue(); } JsonNode businessKeyJson = startJSON.path("businessKey"); String businessKey = null; if (businessKeyJson != null) { businessKey = businessKeyJson.textValue(); } Map<String, Object> variables = retrieveVariables(startJSON); variables.remove("processDefinitionId"); variables.remove("processDefinitionKey"); variables.remove("businessKey"); ProcessInstance processInstance = null; if (processDefinitionKey != null) { processInstance = ActivitiUtil.getRuntimeService().startProcessInstanceByKey(processDefinitionKey, businessKey, variables); } else { processInstance = ActivitiUtil.getRuntimeService().startProcessInstanceById(processDefinitionId, businessKey, variables); } StartProcessInstanceResponse response = new StartProcessInstanceResponse(processInstance); return response; } catch (Exception e) { if (e instanceof ActivitiException) { throw (ActivitiException) e; } throw new ActivitiException("Failed to retrieve the process definition parameters", e); } } protected Status getAuthenticationFailureStatus() { return Status.CLIENT_ERROR_FORBIDDEN; } }