searchProcessInstances STARTED_BY_SUBSTITUTE using REST API

Q&A
1

Hello everyone,

I’m trying to obtain the list of cases supervised by a user but i can’t find any call who return this data via REST API.
In the JAVA API the method who return this data is this one (I guess):
searchProcessInstances
Setting STARTED_BY_SUBSTITUTE in the ProcessInstanceSearchDescriptor
But i cant find the equivalent one in REST API.

I start the cases with this POST call:
http://localhost:8081/bonita/API/bpm/case/
with this at Body:
{“processDefinitionId”: 5213939460169391901, “startedBySubstitute”: 12}

I can see that the field startedBySubstitute is setted correctly but i don’t know who to retrieve this cases. (I can retrieve all the cases for this process and filter programmatically but that was dirty…).

Can anyone help me with this call?

Thanks in advance and sorry for my english.

2

Hi,
you need to use GET call not POST to retrieve data from bonita server

Hope it helps
Karim

3

Thank you Karim,

I’m using get calls to try to retrieve the information, I just use the post to start the case.
For example i use this GET call to retrieve the cases started by a user:

http://localhost:8081/bonita/API/bpm/case?&f=started_by%3D11&o=reached_state_date

The question is that i can’t found any call that return the cases started by a substitute.

Thank you again

4

In subscription edition (efficiency and performance), administrator and process manager have the posiibility to start a process instead of the default intended user.
This feature is not present in community edition.
So if you use community edition, you can’t do this call.
Hope it helps
Karim

5

Thank you again for your reply, Karim.

I’m using the community edition and I can also start cases in substitution of another user (using JAVA API or REST API) and using the JAVA API I can check this processes performing a search.

So I think that this feature is available from the community edition via API.

And like I said, I can retrieve all the processes and make the filter programmatically. I just want to optimize the calls.

Thank you one more time.